| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
190 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Manning the posts: classic noir, postclassic noir, and postmodernism -- Sexing the paradigm: women and men in noir -- Racing the paradigm: the whiteness of film noir -- Killers (1946): quintessential noir? -- Out of the past (1947): passive masculinity and active femininities -- Kiss me deadly (1955): apocalyptic femmes -- L.A. confidential (1997) and Casablanca (1942): does anything change as time goes by? -- Mulholland Falls (1996): nuclear noir as numbskull noir -- Fight club (1999): retro-noir masquerades as neo-noir -- Twilight (1998): age, beauty, and star power: survival of the fittest -- Fargo (1996): a woman who is not herself mean: snow-swept highways and Margie -- Jackie brown (1997): gender, race, class, and genre -- Conclusion: Doing it for bell: cultural criticism and social change. |
| Subject |
Film noir -- History and criticism.
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Film noir. |
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Sex role in motion pictures.
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Sex role in motion pictures. |
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Race in motion pictures.
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Race in motion pictures. |
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Social classes in motion pictures.
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Social classes in motion pictures. |
| ISBN |
0292709668 paperback alkaline paper |
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0292706944 cloth alkaline paper |
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