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Dames in the Driver's Seat : Rereading Film Noir.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2005Copyright date: ©2005Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (203 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780292796843
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Dames in the Driver's SeatDDC classification:
  • 791.43/6552
LOC classification:
  • PN1995
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION: DAMES AND DRIVING -- PART 1: CONTENTS AND CONTEXTS -- CHAPTER 1: MANNING THE POSTS: CLASSIC NOIR, POSTCLASSIC NOIR, AND POSTMODERNISM -- CHAPTER 2: SEXING THE PARADIGM: WOMEN AND MEN IN NOIR -- CHAPTER 3: RACING THE PARADIGM: THE WHITENESS OF FILM NOIR -- PART 2: PROTOTYPES IN CLASSIC NOIR -- CHAPTER 4: THE KILLERS (1946): QUINTESSENTIAL NOIR? -- CHAPTER 5: OUT OF THE PAST (1947): PASSIVE MASCULINITY AND ACTIVE FEMININITIES -- CHAPTER 6: KISS ME DEADLY (1955): APOCALYPTIC FEMMES -- PART 3: RETURN OF THE REPRESSED IN RETRO-NOIR -- CHAPTER 7: L.A. CONFIDENTIAL (1997) AND CASABLANCA (1942): DOES ANYTHING CHANGE AS TIME GOES BY? -- CHAPTER 8: MULHOLLAND FALLS (1996): NUCLEAR NOIR AS NUMBSKULL NOIR -- CHAPTER 9: FIGHT CLUB (1999): RETRO-NOIR MASQUERADES AS NEO-NOIR -- PART 4: REVISION OF THE REPRESSED IN NEO-NOIR -- CHAPTER 10: TWILIGHT (1998): AGE, BEAUTY, AND STAR POWER-SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST -- CHAPTER 11: FARGO (1996): A WOMAN WHO IS NOT HERSELF MEAN-SNOW-SWEPT HIGHWAYS AND MARGIE -- CHAPTER 12: JACKIE BROWN (1997): GENDER, RACE, CLASS, AND GENRE -- CONCLUSION: DOING IT FOR bell: CULTURAL CRITICISM AND SOCIAL CHANGE -- NOTES -- WORKS CITED -- INDEX.
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Intro -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION: DAMES AND DRIVING -- PART 1: CONTENTS AND CONTEXTS -- CHAPTER 1: MANNING THE POSTS: CLASSIC NOIR, POSTCLASSIC NOIR, AND POSTMODERNISM -- CHAPTER 2: SEXING THE PARADIGM: WOMEN AND MEN IN NOIR -- CHAPTER 3: RACING THE PARADIGM: THE WHITENESS OF FILM NOIR -- PART 2: PROTOTYPES IN CLASSIC NOIR -- CHAPTER 4: THE KILLERS (1946): QUINTESSENTIAL NOIR? -- CHAPTER 5: OUT OF THE PAST (1947): PASSIVE MASCULINITY AND ACTIVE FEMININITIES -- CHAPTER 6: KISS ME DEADLY (1955): APOCALYPTIC FEMMES -- PART 3: RETURN OF THE REPRESSED IN RETRO-NOIR -- CHAPTER 7: L.A. CONFIDENTIAL (1997) AND CASABLANCA (1942): DOES ANYTHING CHANGE AS TIME GOES BY? -- CHAPTER 8: MULHOLLAND FALLS (1996): NUCLEAR NOIR AS NUMBSKULL NOIR -- CHAPTER 9: FIGHT CLUB (1999): RETRO-NOIR MASQUERADES AS NEO-NOIR -- PART 4: REVISION OF THE REPRESSED IN NEO-NOIR -- CHAPTER 10: TWILIGHT (1998): AGE, BEAUTY, AND STAR POWER-SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST -- CHAPTER 11: FARGO (1996): A WOMAN WHO IS NOT HERSELF MEAN-SNOW-SWEPT HIGHWAYS AND MARGIE -- CHAPTER 12: JACKIE BROWN (1997): GENDER, RACE, CLASS, AND GENRE -- CONCLUSION: DOING IT FOR bell: CULTURAL CRITICISM AND SOCIAL CHANGE -- NOTES -- WORKS CITED -- INDEX.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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