| Description |
x, 299 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-285) and index. |
| 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. |
| Summary |
"America is Elsewhere provides a rigorous and creative reconsideration of hard-boiled crime fiction and the film noir tradition within three related postwar contexts: 1) the rise of the consumer republic in the United States after World War II 2) the challenge to traditional notions of masculinity posed by a new form of citizenship based in consumption, and 3) the simultaneous creation of "authenticity effects"--Representational strategies designed to safeguard an image of both the American male and America itself outside of and in opposition to the increasingly omnipresent marketplace." -- Publisher website. |
| Subject |
Detective and mystery stories, American -- History and criticism.
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Noir fiction, American -- History and criticism.
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Film noir -- United States -- History and criticism.
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National characteristics, American, in literature.
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Masculinity in literature.
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Detective and mystery stories, American. (OCoLC)fst00891483
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Film noir. (OCoLC)fst00924273
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Masculinity in literature. (OCoLC)fst01011040
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National characteristics, American, in literature. (OCoLC)fst01033350
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Noir fiction, American. (OCoLC)fst01038353
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
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| ISBN |
9780199969913 (cloth : acid-free paper) |
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0199969914 (cloth : acid-free paper) |
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9780199969920 (pbk. : acid-free paper) |
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0199969922 (pbk. : acid-free paper) |
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0199970734 (electronic bk.) |
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9780199970735 (electronic bk.) |
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