Black & White & Noir : : America's Pulp Modernism / / Paula Rabinowitz.
Black & White & Noir explores America's pulp modernism through penetrating readings of the noir sensibility lurking in an eclectic array of media: Office of War Information photography, women's experimental films, and African-American novels, among others. It traces the dark edges...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2002] ©2002 |
| Year of Publication: | 2002 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (288 p.) :; 40 photos |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Introduction: on Pulp Modernism
- Part 1. Black Rooms and Rage
- Chapter 1. Already Framed: Esther Bubley Invents Noir
- Chapter 2. Domestic Labor: Film Noir, Proletarian Literature, and Black Women'S Fiction
- Chapter 3. Double Cross: Wri(Gh)Ting as the Outsider
- Part 2. White Work And Memory
- Chapter 4. Blanc Noir: Rural Pulp And Documentary Modernism
- Chapter 5. Melodrama/Male Drama: The Sentimental Contract of American Labor Films
- Chapter 6. Not "Just the Facts, Ma'Am": Social Workers as Private Eyes
- Part 3. Noir Household Objects
- Chapter 7. Barbara Stanwyck's Anklet
- Chapter 8. Medium Uncool: Avant-Garde Film and Uncanny Feminism
- Chapter 9. Mapping Noir
- Notes
- Index