Reflections of Society and Era in Hard-Boiled Detective Fiction
The thesis focuses on popular literature, detective fiction and hard-boiled detective fiction in particular. It includes an outline of detective fiction, American hard-boiled mode and its representatives, mainly Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett. The aim is to highlight modernistic literary features in their novels. The thesis also includes analysis of real cases from the 1920s and 1930s in America and their reflection in hard-boiled novels. The thesis proves that hard-boiled detective fiction reflects the twentieth-century American society and era and that it is political.
The Newgate Novel and Sensation Fiction 1830-1868
Pykett, Lyn. 'The Newgate Novel and Sensation Fiction 1830-1868', In: The Cambridge Companion to Crime fiction (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003), pp.19-39 RAE2008
FlowBrush: optical flow art
The depiction of motion in static representations has a long tradition in art and science alike. Often, motion is depicted by spatio-temporal summarizations that try to preserve as much information of the original dynamic content as possible. In our approach to depicting motion, we remove the spatial constraints and generate new content steered by the temporal changes in motion. Applying particle steering in combination with the dynamic color palette of the video content, we can create a wide range of different image styles. With recorded videos, or by live interaction with a webcam, one can influence the resulting image. We provide a set of intuitive parameters to affect the style of the result, the final image content depends on the video input. Based on a collection of results gathered from test users, we discuss example styles that can be achieved with FlowBrush. In general, our approach provides an open sandbox for creative people to generate aesthetic images from any video content they apply.