Jazz and cocktails
Subtitle: rethinking race and the sound of film noir
By: Jans B. Wager
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 163
ISBN-13: 9781477312261; 9781477312278
Subjects: Sound in motion pictures; Film noir; Jazz in motion pictures; Motion pictures and music; Blues (Music) in motion pictures; History and criticism; Race in motion pictures
Other titles: Rethinking race and the sound of film noir
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-154) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Nostalgia for the Lush Life; title: Pie eye's juke joint : jazz and its interpretations; title: The porters and waiters club : jazz, movies, and Ogden; title: Studio jazz from Harlem to Acapulco; title: The Blue Gardenia, Club Pigalle, and Daniel's : charting the alienation effect in film noir; title: From Elysium to Robards, from real to reel; title: A Paris bar where miles innovates; title: "All the very gay places" : Ellington and Strayhorn swing in northern Michigan; title: Cannoy's club : "All men are evil"; title: "Jeep's blues" and jazz today.