ISBN: 9780199969920

America is Elsewhere provides a rigorous and creative reconsideration of hard-boiled crime fiction and the film noir tradition within three related postwar contexts: 1) the rise of th… Altro …

America is Elsewhere provides a rigorous and creative reconsideration of hard-boiled crime fiction and the film noir tradition within three related postwar contexts: 1) the rise of the consumer republic in the United States after World War II 2) the challenge to traditional notions of masculinity posed by a new form of citizenship based in consumption, and 3) the simultaneous creation of "authenticity effects" — representational strategies designed to safeguard an image of both the American male and America itself outside of and in opposition to the increasingly omnipresent marketplace. Films like Double Indemnity, Ace in the Hole, and Kiss Me Deadly alongside novels by Dashiel Hammett and Raymond Chandler provide rich examples for the first half of the study. The second is largely devoted to works less commonly understood in relation to the hard-boiled and noir canon. Examinations of the conspiracy films from the Seventies and Eighties — like Klute and The Parallax View — novels by Thomas Pynchon, Chester Himes and William Gibson reveal the persistence and evolution of these authenticity effects across the second half of the American twentieth century. Trade Books>Trade Paperback>Movies & TV>Film Studies>Film Studies, Oxford University Press Core >1<

ISBN: 9780199969920

America is Elsewhere provides a rigorous and creative reconsideration of hard-boiled crime fiction and the film noir tradition within three related postwar contexts: 1) the rise of the co… Altro …

America is Elsewhere provides a rigorous and creative reconsideration of hard-boiled crime fiction and the film noir tradition within three related postwar contexts: 1) the rise of the consumer republic in the United States after World War II 2) the challenge to traditional notions of masculinity posed by a new form of citizenship based in consumption, and 3) the simultaneous creation of authenticity effects -- representational strategies designed to safeguard an image of both the American male and America itself outside of and in opposition to the increasingly omnipresent marketplace. Films like Double Indemnity, Ace in the Hole, and Kiss Me Deadly alongside novels by Dashiel Hammett and Raymond Chandler provide rich examples for the first half of the study. The second is largely devoted to works less commonly understood in relation to the hard-boiled and noir canon. Examinations of the conspiracy films from the Seventies and Eighties -- like Klute and The Parallax View -- novels by Thomas Pynchon, Chester Himes and William Gibson reveal the persistence and evolution of these authenticity effects across the second half of the American twentieth century. Trade Books>Trade Paperback>Movies & TV>Film Studies>Film Studies, Oxford University Press Core >1<

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Oxford University Press, Taschenbuch, Auflage: 1, 414 Seiten, Publiziert: 2013-07-11T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Buch, Hersteller-Nr.: 9780199997909, 0.9 kg, Verkaufsrang: 2792173, Medizin,… Altro …

Oxford University Press, Taschenbuch, Auflage: 1, 414 Seiten, Publiziert: 2013-07-11T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Buch, Hersteller-Nr.: 9780199997909, 0.9 kg, Verkaufsrang: 2792173, Medizin, Kategorien, Bücher, Infektiologie, Klinische Medizin, Medizin & Gesundheitsdienste, Fachbücher, Tropenmedizin, Erkrankungen, Präventivmedizin, Epidemiologie, Medizinforschung, Nosologie, Verwaltung & Richtlinien, Gesundheitswesen, Fremdsprachige Bücher, Featured Categories, Englische Bücher, 7c9a6c79-19ea-4dea-90da-d7d47042d341_2301, 7c9a6c79-19ea-4dea-90da-d7d47042d341_0, Arborist Merchandising Root, acc906d0-2585-4921-a56f-3ff277850936_4901, acc906d0-2585-4921-a56f-3ff277850936_0, Special Features Stores, Taschenbücher, acc906d0-2585-4921-a56f-3ff277850936_4201, Format: Illustriert, Oxford University Press, 2013<