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Book SynopsisNoir Affect defines noir in relationship to negative affect. It traces noir’s negativity as it manifests in different national contexts and a range of different media. The forms of affect associated with noir are resolutely negative: loss, sadness, rage, shame, guilt, regret, anxiety, humiliation, resentment, resistance, and refusal.
Table of ContentsPreface | vii
Introduction: Dark Passages
Christopher Breu and Elizabeth A. Hatmaker | 1
1. Toward Alphaville: Noir, Midcentury Communication, and the Management of Affect
Justus Nieland | 29
2. Public Violence as Private Pathology: Noir Affect in The End of a Primitive
Christopher Breu | 59
3. Cold Kink: Race and Sex in the African American Underworld
Kirin Wachter-Grene | 78
4. Noir Pedagogy: The Problem of Student Masochism in the Classroom Economy
Elizabeth A. Hatmaker | 99
5. The Shadows of the Twilight World: Beebo Brinker and the Circulation of Affect
Sean Grattan | 122
6. Peripheral Noir, Mediation, and Capitalism: Noir Form, Noir Mediascape, Sociological Noir
Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado | 137
7. Cyborg Affect and the Power of the Posthuman in the Ghost in the Shell Franchise
Peter Hitchcock | 156
8. Playing with Negativity: Max Payne, Neoliberal Collapse, and the Noir Video Game
Brian Rejack | 178
9. Chick Noir: Surveilling Femininity and the Affects of Loss in Gone Girl
Pamela Thoma | 197
10. Surplus Feelings: Neoliberal Noir and the Affective Economy of Debt
Alexander Dunst | 222
11. Capitalism as Affective Atmosphere: The Noir Worlds of Massimo Carlotto
Andrew Pepper | 241
Afterword: Melodrama, Noir’s Kid Sister, or Crying in Trump’s America
Paula Rabinowitz | 261
List of Contributors | 275
Index | 279
