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Noir Affect /

Noir Affect proposes a new understanding of noir as defined by negative affect. This new understanding emphasizes that noir is, first and foremost, an affective disposition rather than a specific cycle of films or novels associated with a given time period or national tradition. Instead, the essays...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Hatmaker, Elizabeth (Editor ), Breu, Christopher (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2020
Edición:First edition.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : dark passages / Christopher Breu and Elizabeth A. Hatmaker
  • Toward Alphaville : noir, midcentury communication, and the management of affect / Justus Nieland
  • Public violence as private pathology : noir affect in The end of a primitive / Christopher Breu
  • Cold kink : race and sex in the African American underworld / Kirin Wachter-Grene
  • Noir pedagogy : the problem of student masochism in the classroom economy / Elizabeth A. Hatmaker
  • The shadows of the twilight world : Beebo Brinker and the circulation of affect / Sean Grattan
  • Peripheral noir, mediation, and capitalism : noir form, noir mediascape, sociological noir / Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado
  • Cyborg affect and the power of the posthuman in the Ghost in the shell franchise / Peter Hitchcock
  • Playing with negativity : Max Payne, neoliberal collapse, and the noir video game / Brian Rejack
  • Chick noir : surveilling femininity and the affects of loss in Gone girl / Pamela Thoma
  • Surplus feelings : neoliberal noir and the affective economy of debt / Alexander Dunst
  • Capitalism as affective atmosphere : the noir worlds of Massimo Carlotto / Andrew Pepper
  • Afterword : melodrama, noir's kid sister, or crying in Trump's America / Paula Rabinowitz.