- Fascination with other people's misery
- Anti-hero who's self-aware and keeps forging ahead
- Ethical consistency has a kind of integrity
- Vicarious suspense, danger, and excitement
- Manifesting people's real-life anxieties
- Catharsis coming from seeing bad experience represented
- Identification with antisocial characters and rebels
- Envy of their rebellion, freedom, and boldness
Thursday, August 30, 2012
Appeal of Noir Stories
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Thanks, Mary Kate! Further comments on this theme (by anybody) are welcome.
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