{"product_id":"dames-in-the-drivers-seat-9780292709669","title":"Dames in the Drivers Seat","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAstute 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Acknowledgments \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Introduction. Dames and Driving \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Section One: Contents and Contexts \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Chapter One. Manning the Posts: Classic Noir, Postclassic Noir, and Postmodernism \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Chapter Two. Sexing the Paradigm: Women and Men in Noir \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Chapter Three. Racing the Paradigm: The Whiteness of Film Noir \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Section Two: Prototypes in Classic Noir \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Chapter Four. \u003ci\u003eThe Killers\u003c\/i\u003e (1946): Quintessential Noir? \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Chapter Five. \u003ci\u003eOut of the Past\u003c\/i\u003e (1947): Passive Masculinity and Active Femininities \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Chapter Six. \u003ci\u003eKiss Me Deadly\u003c\/i\u003e (1955): Apocalyptic Femmes \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Section Three: Return of the Repressed in Retro-Noir \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Chapter Seven. \u003ci\u003eL.A. Confidential\u003c\/i\u003e (1997) and \u003ci\u003eCasablanca\u003c\/i\u003e (1942): Does Anything Change as Time Goes By? \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Chapter Eight. \u003ci\u003eMulholland Falls \u003c\/i\u003e(1996): Nuclear Noir as Numbskull Noir \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Chapter Nine. \u003ci\u003eFight Club\u003c\/i\u003e (1999): Retro-Noir Masquerades as Neo-Noir \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Section Four: Revision of the Repressed in Neo-Noir \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Chapter Ten. \u003ci\u003eTwilight\u003c\/i\u003e (1998): Age, Beauty, and Star Power—Survival of the Fittest \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Chapter Eleven. \u003ci\u003eFargo\u003c\/i\u003e (1996): A Woman Who Is Not Herself Mean—Snow-swept Highways and Margie \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Chapter Twelve. \u003ci\u003eJackie Brown\u003c\/i\u003e (1997): Gender, Race, Class, and Genre \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Conclusion. Doing It for bell: Cultural Criticism and Social Change \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Notes \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Works Cited \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Index \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"MU - University of Texas Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51359007310167,"sku":"9780292709669","price":15.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780292709669.jpg?v=1754123201","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/dames-in-the-drivers-seat-9780292709669","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}