Rayford Publishing

Preminger subverts the femme fatale archetype by replacing greed and financial gains with obsession as her driving force. Diane sinister acts are motivated by her pathological attachment to her father. Preminger renders the two main male characters morally compromised. Frank's attraction to her reflects the desire for social advancement, the same that made her father marry Cathy-her stepmother. The movie displays beneath Frank's rugged masculinity lies the moral weakness her

Sirk was preoccupied with the theme of defeat. The three central characters of Pylon, a short story by Faulkner, each embodying a manifestation of his recurring theme: An ace pilot from WWI, a young midwestern woman, and an alcoholic reporter were looking for something to bring a meaning to their lives. In the final cross-cutting between Roger’s fatal crash and Jack’s carnival ride Sirk juxtaposes spectacle with tragedy depicting Mardi Gras is not an allegory, but the realit