Jonathan Auerbach

Dark Borders

Film Noir and American Citizenship

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Produktbeschreibung

Connects anxieties about citizenship and national belonging in midcentury America to the sense of alienation conveyed by American film noir

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Jonathan Auerbach is Professor of English at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is the author of Body Shots: Early Cinema’s Incarnations; Male Call: Becoming Jack London, also published by Duke University Press; and The Romance of Failure: First-Person Fictions of Poe, Hawthorne, and James.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. März 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 232mm x 156mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 402g
• ISBN-13: 9780822350064
• ISBN-10: 0822350068
• Artikelnr.: 32471563

Autorenporträt

Jonathan Auerbach is Professor of English at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is the author of Body Shots: Early Cinema’s Incarnations; Male Call: Becoming Jack London, also published by Duke University Press; and The Romance of Failure: First-Person Fictions of Poe, Hawthorne, and James.

Inhaltsangabe

Illustrations vii
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: The Un-Americanness of Film Noir 1
1. Gestapo in America: Confessions of a Nazi Spy and Stranger on the Third
Floor 27
2. White Collar Murder: Double Indemnity 57
3. Cuba, Gangsters, Vets, and Other Outcasts of the Islands: The Chase and
Key Largo 91
4. North From Mexico: Border Incident, Hold Back the Dawn, Secret Beyond
the Door, and Out of the Past 123
5. Bad Boy Patriots: This Gun for Hire, Ride the Pink Horse, and Pickup on
South Street 155
Postscript: Darkness Visible 185
Notes 205
Bibilography 245
Index 261