America Is Elsewhere The Noir Tradition In The Age Of Consumer Culture
Erik Dussere · 2013
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"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.
Book details
- Year
- 2013
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc
- Editions
- 1
- Pages
- 299
- ISBN
- 9780199969913
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