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Book Synopsis
Astute analyses of how gender, class, and race have been portrayed in classic film noir (1941-1958) and in retro-noir and neo-noir films of the 1990s

Table of Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction. Dames and Driving
  • Section One: Contents and Contexts
    • Chapter One. Manning the Posts: Classic Noir, Postclassic Noir, and Postmodernism
    • Chapter Two. Sexing the Paradigm: Women and Men in Noir
    • Chapter Three. Racing the Paradigm: The Whiteness of Film Noir
  • Section Two: Prototypes in Classic Noir
    • Chapter Four. The Killers (1946): Quintessential Noir?
    • Chapter Five. Out of the Past (1947): Passive Masculinity and Active Femininities
    • Chapter Six. Kiss Me Deadly (1955): Apocalyptic Femmes
  • Section Three: Return of the Repressed in Retro-Noir
    • Chapter Seven. L.A. Confidential (1997) and Casablanca (1942): Does Anything Change as Time Goes By?
    • Chapter Eight. Mulholland Falls (1996): Nuclear Noir as Numbskull Noir
    • Chapter Nine. Fight Club (1999): Retro-Noir Masquerades as Neo-Noir
  • Section Four: Revision of the Repressed in Neo-Noir
    • Chapter Ten. Twilight (1998): Age, Beauty, and Star Power—Survival of the Fittest
    • Chapter Eleven. Fargo (1996): A Woman Who Is Not Herself Mean—Snow-swept Highways and Margie
    • Chapter Twelve. Jackie Brown (1997): Gender, Race, Class, and Genre
  • Conclusion. Doing It for bell: Cultural Criticism and Social Change
  • Notes
  • Works Cited
  • Index

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      Publisher: MU - University of Texas Press
      Publication Date: 9/1/2005 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780292709669, 978-0292709669
      ISBN10: 0292709668
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      Gender studies: women and girls

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Astute analyses of how gender, class, and race have been portrayed in classic film noir (1941-1958) and in retro-noir and neo-noir films of the 1990s

      Table of Contents
      • Acknowledgments
      • Introduction. Dames and Driving
      • Section One: Contents and Contexts
        • Chapter One. Manning the Posts: Classic Noir, Postclassic Noir, and Postmodernism
        • Chapter Two. Sexing the Paradigm: Women and Men in Noir
        • Chapter Three. Racing the Paradigm: The Whiteness of Film Noir
      • Section Two: Prototypes in Classic Noir
        • Chapter Four. The Killers (1946): Quintessential Noir?
        • Chapter Five. Out of the Past (1947): Passive Masculinity and Active Femininities
        • Chapter Six. Kiss Me Deadly (1955): Apocalyptic Femmes
      • Section Three: Return of the Repressed in Retro-Noir
        • Chapter Seven. L.A. Confidential (1997) and Casablanca (1942): Does Anything Change as Time Goes By?
        • Chapter Eight. Mulholland Falls (1996): Nuclear Noir as Numbskull Noir
        • Chapter Nine. Fight Club (1999): Retro-Noir Masquerades as Neo-Noir
      • Section Four: Revision of the Repressed in Neo-Noir
        • Chapter Ten. Twilight (1998): Age, Beauty, and Star Power—Survival of the Fittest
        • Chapter Eleven. Fargo (1996): A Woman Who Is Not Herself Mean—Snow-swept Highways and Margie
        • Chapter Twelve. Jackie Brown (1997): Gender, Race, Class, and Genre
      • Conclusion. Doing It for bell: Cultural Criticism and Social Change
      • Notes
      • Works Cited
      • Index

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