America Is Elsewhere The Noir Tradition In The Age Of Consumer Culture
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 299
ISBN-13: 9780199969913
Description: "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." -- Publisher website.