Noir Affect /

Noir Affect / / ed. by Christopher Breu, Elizabeth A. Hatmaker.

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Noir Affect proposes a new understanding of noir as defined by negative affect. This new understanding emphasizes that noir is, first and foremost, an affective disposition rather than a specific cycle of films or novels associated with a given time period or national tradition. Instead, the essays...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2020 English
MitwirkendeR:
Breu, Christopher,
Dunst, Alexander,
Grattan, Sean,
Hatmaker, Elizabeth A.,
Hitchcock, Peter,
Nieland, Justus,
Pepper, Andrew,
Prado, Ignacio M. Sánchez,
Rabinowitz, Paula,
Rejack, Brian,
Sánchez Prado, Ignacio,
Thoma, Pamela,
Wachter-Grene, Kirin,
HerausgeberIn:
Breu, Christopher,
Hatmaker, Elizabeth A.,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2020]
©2020
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (304 p.) :; 11
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Introduction: Dark Passages
  • 1. Toward Alphaville: Noir, Midcentury Communication, and the Management of Affect
  • 2. Public Violence as Private Pathology: Noir Affect in The End of a Primitive
  • 3. Cold Kink: Race and Sex in the African American Underworld
  • 4. Noir Pedagogy: The Problem of Student Masochism in the Classroom Economy
  • 5. The Shadows of the Twilight World: Beebo Brinker and the Circulation of Affect
  • 6. Peripheral Noir, Mediation, and Capitalism: Noir Form, Noir Mediascape, Sociological Noir
  • 7. Cyborg Affect and the Power of the Posthuman in the Ghost in the Shell Franchise
  • 8. Playing with Negativity: Max Payne, Neoliberal Collapse, and the Noir Video Game
  • 9. Chick Noir: Surveilling Femininity and the Affects of Loss in Gone Girl
  • 10. Surplus Feelings: Neoliberal Noir and the Affective Economy of Debt
  • 11. Capitalism as Affective Atmosphere: The Noir Worlds of Massimo Carlotto
  • Afterword: Melodrama, Noir’s Kid Sister, or Crying in Trump’s America
  • List of Contributors
  • Index

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