America Noir Underground Writers and Filmmakers of the Postwar Era

Name: America Noir Underground Writers and Filmmakers of the Postwar Era
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ISBN: 9781588342188

ISBN-10: 1588342182

ISBN-13: 9781588342188

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Authors: David Cochran

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List price: $24.95
Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press
Publication date: 6/22/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 280
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.69" tall
Weight: 0.902
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Preface: Mapping the Underground Culture


Introduction: Within the Shell of the Old: The Creation of the Cold War Consensus and the Emergence of the Underground Culture



The Killer inside Me: Roman Noir Authors



Slipping Deeper into Hell: Jim Thompson's Theology of Absurdity



"It's Always for Nothing": The Paperback Worldview of Charles Willeford



Progress and Its Discontents: Science Fiction and Fantasy Authors



"I'm Being Ironic": Imperialism, Mass Culture, and the Fantastic World of Ray Bradbury



The Devil and Charles Beaumont



Outside Looking In: Minority Artists



"So Much Nonsense Must Make Sense": The Black Vision of Chester Himes



"Some Torture That Perversely Eased": Patricia Highsmith and the Everyday Schizophrenia of American Life



Little Shop of Horrors: Independent Filmmakers



"Lots of Socko": The Independent Cinematic Vision of Samuel Fuller



Roger Corman's Low-Budget Modernism



Cracks in the Consensus: Liberal Artists



Richard Condon and the Paranoid Surreal Style in American Politics



Another Dimension: Rod Serling, Consensus Liberalism, and The Twilight Zone


Conclusion: The Emancipation of Dissonance


Notes


Bibliography


Index