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Dames in the driver's seat : rereading film noir

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

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Description
ix, 190 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Subject
  • Film noir > History and criticism
  • Sex role in motion pictures
  • Race in motion pictures
  • Social classes in motion pictures
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 173-180) and index.
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.
Call Number
MFL 05-6988
ISBN
  • 0292706944 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0292709668 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
2005010564
OCLC
59098865
Author
Wager, Jans B., 1958-
Title
Dames in the driver's seat : rereading film noir / Jans B. Wager.
Imprint
Austin : University of Texas Press, 2005.
Edition
1st ed.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 173-180) and index.
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