Dames in the Driver's Seat Rereading Film Noir

Name: Dames in the Driver's Seat Rereading Film Noir
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ISBN: 9780292709669

ISBN-10: 0292709668

ISBN-13: 9780292709669

Edition: 2005

Authors: Jans B. Wager

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Jans Wager presents an astute analysis of how gender, class, and race have been portrayed in classic film noir (1941-1958) and in retro-noir and neo-noir films of the 1990s.

Book details

List price: $19.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Publication date: 9/1/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 202
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.94" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English

JANS B. WAGER is Associate Professor of English and Literature at Utah Valley State College in Orem, Utah. This book continues the investigation of film noir she began in Dangerous Dames: Women and Representation in the Weimar Street Film and Film Noir.



Acknowledgments


Introduction: Dames and Driving



Contents and Contexts



Manning the Posts: Classic Noir, Postclassic Noir, and Postmodernism



Sexing the Paradigm: Women and Men in Noir



Racing the Paradigm: The Whiteness of Film Noir



Prototypes in Classic Noir



The Killers (1946): Quintessential Noir?



Out of the Past (1947): Passive Masculinity and Active Feminities



Kiss Me Deadly (1955): Apocalyptic Femmes



Return of the Repressed in Retro-Noir



L.A. Confidential (1997) and Casablanca (1942): Does Anything Change as Time Goes By?



Mulholland Falls (1996): Nuclear Noir as Numbskull Noir



Fight Club (1999): Retro-Noir Masquerades as Neo-Noir



Revision of the Repressed in Neo-Noir



Twilight (1998): Age, Beauty, and Star Power - Survival of the Fittest



Fargo (1996): A Woman Who Is Not Herself Mean - Snow-swept Highways and Margie



Jackie Brown (1997): Gender, Race, Class, and Genre


Conclusion: Doing It for bell: Cultural Criticism and Social Change


Notes


Works Cited


Index