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Black & white & noir : America's pulp modernism /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rabinowitz, Paula
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, [2002]
Subjects:
Film noir > United States > History and criticism.
Popular culture > United States > History > 20th century.
Table of Contents:
  • Already framed: Esther Bubley invents noir
  • Domestic labor: film noir, proletarian literature, and Black women's fiction
  • Double cross: Wri(gh)ting as The outsider
  • Blanc noir: rural pulp and documentary modernism
  • Melodrama/male drama: the sentimental contract of American labor films
  • Not "just the facts, ma'am": social workers as private eyes
  • Barbara Stanwyck's anklet
  • Medium uncool: avant-garde film and uncanny feminism
  • Mapping noir.