Dames in the driver's seat : rereading film noir /

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Wager, Jans B., 1958- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2005.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Film noir > History and criticism.
Sex role in motion pictures.
Race in motion pictures.
Social classes in motion pictures.
Films noirs > Histoire et critique.
Rôle selon le sexe au cinéma.
Race au cinéma.
Classes sociales au cinéma.
PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video > Reference.
PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video > History & Criticism.
Film noir
Race in motion pictures
Sex role in motion pictures
Social classes in motion pictures
Geschichte
USA
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Manning the posts: classic noir, postclassic noir, and postmodernism
  • Sexing the paradigm: women and men in noir
  • Racing the paradigm: the whiteness of film noir
  • The killers (1946): quintessential noir?
  • Out of the past (1947): passive masculinity and active femininities
  • Kiss me deadly (1955): apocalyptic femmes
  • L.A. confidential (1997) and Casablanca (1942): does anything change as time goes by?
  • Mulholland Falls (1996): nuclear noir as numbskull noir
  • Fight club (1999): retro-noir masquerades as neo-noir
  • Twilight (1998): age, beauty, and star power: survival of the fittest
  • Fargo (1996): a woman who is not herself mean: snow-swept highways and Margie
  • Jackie brown (1997): gender, race, class, and genre
  • Conclusion: Doing it for bell: cultural criticism and social change.

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