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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.
- Subjects
- 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.
- Connect to:
- Research Call Number
- MFL 05-6988