Thematic and Stylistic devices to portray the anti-hero protagonist in Neo Noir

Thematic and Stylistic devices to portray the anti-hero protagonist in Neo Noir

read:
1) Basil Smith’s essay “John Locke, Personal Identity,”
2) Kathrina Glitre’s essay “Under the Neon Rainbow: Color and Neo-Noir,”
3) Deborah Thomas’ essay “Memento: Pasting Ourselves Together through Cinema,”
4) Sherryl Vint and Mark Bould’s essay “The Thin Men: Anorexic Subjectivity inFight Club and The Machinist,”
5) The notes on the article of Notes on the Development of Film Noir and Neo-Noir Film and Some of the Thematic and Stylistic Devices Used in These Films

Then watch David Fincher’s film Fight Club, about a man who is trying to find out who he is through his nemesis, and Christopher Nolan’s film Memento, about a man who knows who he was, but not who he has become — a familiar existentialist trope — and write a double-spaced 2-4 page critical essay (CE-3) in which you compare and contrast Nolan’s use of thematic and stylistic devices to portray the anti-hero protagonist, Leonard Shelby’s existential dilemma regarding his identity with Fincher’s use of thematic and stylistic devices to “shatter the barriers between self/other, reality/fantasy, and memory/dream, while maintaining a psychotic uncertainty for both the characters and the spectator” (Glitre 24).