America is elsewhere : the noir tradition in the age of consumer culture
Title:
America is elsewhere : the noir tradition in the age of consumer culture
Author:
Dussere, Erik, 1968-
ISBN:
9780199970735
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Physical Description:
1 online resource.
Contents:
Last chance Texaco: gas station noir -- The publishing class: detectives and executives in noir fiction -- The gumshoe vanishes: conspiracy film in the sixties era -- Flirters, deserters, wimps and pimps: Pynchon's two Americas -- Black ops: ghetto space and counterconspiracy -- Postmodern authenticity, or, cyberpunk -- The space of the clock: the corporation as genre in the Hudsucker Proxy.
Abstract:
This study conceives the literary and cinematic category of 'noir' as a way of understanding the defining conflict between authenticity and consumer culture in post-World War II America. It analyses works of fiction and film in order to argue that both contribute to a 'noir tradition' that is initiated around the end of World War II and continues to develop and evolve in the present.
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