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Dames in the driver's seat : rereading film noir /
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Austin :
University of Texas Press,
2005.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. |
| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.