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Title

The Aesthetics of Revealing/Concealing in ‘The Killers’ by Ernest Hemingway and in Its Adaptation by Robert Siodmak

Document Type

Article

Citation

Collinge-Germain, Linda. “The Aesthetics of Revealing/Concealing in ‘The Killers’ by Ernest Hemingway and in Its Adaptation by Robert Siodmak.” Journal of the Short Story in English 59 (Autumn 2012): 93-105.

Annotation

Looks at how Siodmak’s 1946 film noir adaptation fills in the gaps by expanding Hemingway’s narrative, arguing that the detective in his quest for meaning serves as the reader. Compares Hemingway’s practice of omission to Siodmak’s aesthetic of visually withholding information.

Published in

Journal of the Short Story in English

Volume

59

Date

2012

Pages

93-105

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