Erik Dussere

America Is Elsewhere

The Noir Tradition in the Age of Consumer Culture

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Produktbeschreibung

America is Elsewhere provides a rigorous and creative reconsideration of hard-boiled crime fiction and the film noir tradition.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 458g
• ISBN-13: 9780199969920
• ISBN-10: 0199969922
• Artikelnr.: 38051455

Autorenporträt

Erik Dussere is Assistant Professor of English at American University. He is the author of Balancing the Books: Faulkner, Morrison, and the Economies of Slavery (Routledge 2003).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction
i. Authenticity Effects
ii. Out of the Past, Into the Supermarket
Part I: Postwar Spaces, Postwar Men
Ch 1. Last Chance Texaco: Gas Station Noir
Ch 2. The Publishing Class: Detectives and Executives in Noir Fiction
Part II: Maps of Conspiracy
Ch 3. The Gumshoe Vanishes: Conspiracy Film in the Sixties Era
Ch 4. Flirters, Deserters, Wimps and Pimps: Pynchon's Two Americas
Ch 5. Black Ops: Ghetto Space and Counterconspiracy
Part III: Postmodernism and Authenticity
Ch 6. Postmodern Authenticity, or, Cyberpunk
Ch 7. The Space of the Clock: The Corporation as Genre in The Hudsucker Proxy
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography