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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910158580303321
• Autore: Wager Jans B. <1958->
• 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.