America is elsewhere : the noir tradition in the age of consumer culture /
Dussere, Erik,1968-author.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Detective and mystery stories, American
Noir fiction, American
Film noir
National characteristics, American, in literature.
Masculinity in literature.