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Record Nr.

UNINA9910158580303321

Autore

Wager Jans B. <1958->

Titolo

Jazz and cocktails : rethinking race and the sound of film noir / / Jans B. Wager

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Austin, Texas : , : University of Texas Press, , [2017]

©2017

ISBN

1-4773-1228-5

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (176 pages)

Disciplina

791.43/6578

Soggetti

Jazz in motion pictures

Film noir - History and criticism

Race in motion pictures

Sound in motion pictures

Motion pictures and music

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: nostalgia for the Lush Life -- Pie eye's juke joint : jazz and its interpretations -- The porters and waiters club : jazz, movies, and Ogden -- Studio jazz from Harlem to Acapulco -- The Blue Gardenia, Club Pigalle, and Daniel's : charting the alienation effect in film noir -- From Elysium to Robards, from real to reel -- A Paris bar where miles innovates -- "All the very gay places" : Ellington and Strayhorn swing in northern Michigan -- Cannoy's club : "All men are evil" -- "Jeep's blues" and jazz today.