Research Catalog

Title

America is elsewhere [electronic resource] : the noir tradition in the age of consumer culture / Erik Dussere.

Author

Dussere, Erik, 1968-

Publication

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2014.

Details

Description

1 online resource (x, 299 pages) : illustrations.

Uniform Title

America is elsewhere (Online)

Alternative Title

America is elsewhere (Online)

Subject

• Detective and mystery stories, American > History and criticism
• Noir fiction, American > History and criticism
• Film noir > United States > History and criticism
• National characteristics, American, in literature
• Masculinity in literature

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-285) and index.

Access (note)

• Access restricted to authorized users.

Contents

Last chance Texaco: gas station noir -- The publishing class: detectives and executives in noir fiction -- The gumshoe vanishes: conspiracy film in the sixties era -- Flirters, deserters, wimps and pimps: Pynchon's two Americas -- Black ops: ghetto space and counterconspiracy -- Postmodern authenticity, or, cyberpunk -- The space of the clock: the corporation as genre in the Hudsucker Proxy.

LCCN

2013008140

OCLC

ssj0000999590

Author

Dussere, Erik, 1968-

Title

America is elsewhere [electronic resource] : the noir tradition in the age of consumer culture / Erik Dussere.

Imprint

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2014.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-285) and index.

Access

Access restricted to authorized users.

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