Title: America Is Elsewhere The Noir Tradition In The Age Of Consumer Culture
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.
Subjects: Masculinity in literature, American Detective and mystery stories, Film noir, National characteristics, American, in literature, American Noir fiction, History and criticism, Detective and mystery stories, history and criticism, American fiction, history and criticism, National characteristics in literature, Literature, Masculinity, American National characteristics, Kriminalliteratur, Kriminalfilm, Konsumgesellschaft