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America Is Elsewhere: The Noir Tradition in the Age of Consumer Culture
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by Erik Dussere

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An excellent study of the relationship between hard-boiled detective fiction, film noir, their subsequent interactions and influences, "authenticity," and American consumer culture.

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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. Films like Double Indemnity, Ace in the Hole, and Kiss Me Deadly alongside novels by Dashiel Hammett and Raymond Chandler provide rich examples for the first half of the study. The second is largely devoted to works less commonly understood in relation to the hard-boiled and noir canon. Examinations of the conspiracy films from the Seventies and Eighties -- like Klute and The Parallax View -- novels by Thomas Pynchon, Chester Himes and William Gibson reveal the persistence and evolution of these authenticity effects across the second half of the American twentieth century.

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  • Title America Is Elsewhere: The Noir Tradition in the Age of Consumer Culture
  • Author Erik Dussere
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 320
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Oxford University Press
  • Publication date 2013-11-01
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780199969920 / 0199969922
  • Weight 1.01 lbs (0.46 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.1 x 6.1 x 0.9 in (23.11 x 15.49 x 2.29 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
  • Category Pop Arts / Pop Culture
  • Library of Congress subjects Masculinity in literature, National characteristics, American, in
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2013008140
  • Dewey Decimal Code 813.087

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Erik Dussere is Associate Professor of Literature at American University. He is the author of Balancing the Books: Faulkner, Morrison, and the Economies of Slavery.
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