{"product_id":"america-is-elsewhere-the-noir-tradition-in-the-age-of-consumer-culture-9780199969920","title":"America Is Elsewhere: The Noir Tradition in the Age of Consumer Culture","description":"\u003cem\u003eAmerica is Elsewhere\u003c\/em\u003e 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\u003cbr\u003emasculinity 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\u003cbr\u003emarketplace. Films like \u003cem\u003eDouble Indemnity\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eAce in the Hole\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eKiss Me Deadly \u003c\/em\u003ealongside 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.\u003cbr\u003eExaminations of the conspiracy films from the Seventies and Eighties -- like \u003cem\u003eKlute \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eThe Parallax View\u003c\/em\u003e -- 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Erik Dussere\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/01\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.01lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780199969920\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/01\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eErik Dussere\u003c\/strong\u003e is Associate Professor of Literature at American University. He is the author of \u003cem\u003eBalancing the Books: Faulkner, Morrison, and the Economies of Slavery\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":39937683685491,"sku":"9.7802E+12","price":46.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_d8350a9d-e3c1-4020-a8cd-6246b738cfee.jpg?v=1647995686","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/america-is-elsewhere-the-noir-tradition-in-the-age-of-consumer-culture-9780199969920","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}