... of reality that one for a moment takes as real and that collapses when exposed. The sudden collapse of the Berlin wall, triggered by a media confusion, serves as one example. The novels of Agatha Christie—the most popular writer in world history—provide another. The staged and stagy...

... reality that one for a moment takes as real and that collapses when exposed. The sudden collapse of the Berlin wall, triggered by a media confusion, serves as one example. The novels of Agatha Christie—the most popular writer in world history—provide another. ...

... The staged and stagy microworlds of murder mysteries resemble bureaucratic comedies. These stand-alone and repeatable artworks make the world of modern office work appear in the world. It makes a world of repeatable motions plausible. Agatha Christie’s novel, Appointment with Death , is a...

..., whose 1932 film Le Coffret de laque, an adaptation of an Agatha Christie play, ran in the tenth at the Folies- Dramatiques.13 The splashiest film event of the Occupation was the 1944 Paris premiere of the Technicolor extravaganza Les Aventures fantastiques du Baron Münchausen (Münchhausen; 1943...

... patrol or residents taking out garbage. 32 Familiarity with the spatio- temporality of buildings also facilitates vio- lent crimes. Historically, the house plan [has been] an intrinsic feature in detective fiction for example, the key role of the floor plan of houses featured in Agatha Christie s...

..., Agatha, 104 Cinéa (magazine), 54, 60 61, 64, 70, 72 73, 77 Cinéac cinema, 35, 103 Ciné- Batignolles cinema, 125 Ciné- Bellevue cinema, 101 I N D E X192 Ciné- Club, 141, 144 ciné- clubs, 19, 128; Amis de Spartacus, 42, 45, 51, 57; bureaucracy, 44 45, 52 53, 141; But ciné- club, 44; Cendrillon, 42, 45 46...