{"product_id":"dark-borders-film-noir-and-american-citizenship-9780822350064","title":"Dark Borders: Film Noir and American Citizenship","description":"\u003ci\u003eDark Borders\u003c\/i\u003e connects anxieties about citizenship and national belonging in midcentury America to the sense of alienation conveyed by American film noir. Jonathan Auerbach provides in-depth interpretations of more than a dozen of these dark crime thrillers, considering them in relation to U.S. national security measures enacted from the mid-1930s to the mid-1950s. The growth of a domestic intelligence-gathering apparatus before, during, and after the Second World War raised unsettling questions about who was American and who was not, and how to tell the difference. Auerbach shows how politics and aesthetics merge in these noirs, whose oft-noted uncanniness betrays the fear that \"un-American\" foes lurk within the homeland. This tone of dispossession was reflected in well-known films, including \u003ci\u003eDouble Indemnity\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eOut of the Past\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003ePickup on South Street\u003c\/i\u003e, and less familiar noirs such as \u003ci\u003eStranger on the Third Floor\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Chase\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eRide the Pink Horse\u003c\/i\u003e. Whether tracing the consequences of the Gestapo in America, or the uncertain borderlines that separate the United States from Cuba and Mexico, these movies blur boundaries; inside and outside become confused as (presumed) foreigners take over domestic space. To feel like a stranger in your own home: this is the peculiar affective condition of citizenship intensified by wartime and Cold War security measures, as well as a primary mood driving many midcentury noir films.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jonathan Auerbach\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Duke University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/14\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 280\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.88lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780822350064\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/01\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJonathan Auerbach is Professor of English at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eBody Shots: Early Cinema's Incarnations\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eMale Call: Becoming Jack London\u003c\/i\u003e, also published by Duke University Press; and \u003ci\u003eThe Romance of Failure: First-Person Fictions of Poe, Hawthorne, and James\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40660799291507,"sku":"9.78082E+12","price":42.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_449fc2b7-6271-4423-99fd-97ff01a3a7b9.jpg?v=1673450278","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/dark-borders-film-noir-and-american-citizenship-9780822350064","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}