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Author Wager, Jans B., 1958-
Title Dames in the driver's seat [electronic resource] : rereading film noir / Jans B. Wager.
Publication Info Austin : University of Texas Press, 2005.


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Descript 1 online resource (ix, 190 p.) : ill.
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.
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ISBN 0292796846 (e-book)
9780292796843 (e-book)
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Author Wager, Jans B., 1958-
Subject Film noir -- History and criticism.
Sex role in motion pictures.
Race in motion pictures.
Social classes in motion pictures.
Descript 1 online resource (ix, 190 p.) : ill.
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.
Note Unlimited number of concurrent users. UkHlHU
ISBN 0292796846 (e-book)
9780292796843 (e-book)
Author Wager, Jans B., 1958-
Subject Film noir -- History and criticism.
Sex role in motion pictures.
Race in motion pictures.
Social classes in motion pictures.

Subject Film noir -- History and criticism.
Sex role in motion pictures.
Race in motion pictures.
Social classes in motion pictures.
Descript 1 online resource (ix, 190 p.) : ill.
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.
Note Unlimited number of concurrent users. UkHlHU
ISBN 0292796846 (e-book)
9780292796843 (e-book)
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