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Anatomy of a metaphor
John M. Ganim
characteristics can be found in medieval movies. They also distinguish film noir from other series, in the course of which they mention Jean Delannoy and Jean Cocteau’s L’Eternel Retour (1943) as an example of an item in a series involving ‘mythic evasions’. Modernising Tristan and Isolde in contemporary dress, Cocteau dramatised the public and private conflicts inherent in the plot, emphasising its dark