Dames in the driver's seat : rereading film noir /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Austin :
University of Texas Press,
[2005]
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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| Online Access: | Table of contents |
Table of Contents:
- 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.