LEADER 04626nam 2200553 450 001 9910478926403321 005 20211105152038.0 010 $a0-8232-8779-3 024 7 $a10.1515/9780823287796 035 $a(CKB)4100000011286124 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6220294 035 $a(DE-B1597)566200 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780823287796 035 $a(OCoLC)1154122262 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000011286124 100 $a20201014d2020 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aNoir affect /$fChristopher Breu, Elizabeth A. Hatmaker, editors 210 1$aNew York :$cFordham University Press,$d[2020] 210 4$d©2020 215 $a1 online resource (305 pages) 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tPreface --$tIntroduction: Dark Passages --$t1. Toward Alphaville: Noir, Midcentury Communication, and the Management of Affect --$t2. Public Violence as Private Pathology: Noir Affect in The End of a Primitive --$t3. Cold Kink: Race and Sex in the African American Underworld --$t4. Noir Pedagogy: The Problem of Student Masochism in the Classroom Economy --$t5. The Shadows of the Twilight World: Beebo Brinker and the Circulation of Affect --$t6. Peripheral Noir, Mediation, and Capitalism: Noir Form, Noir Mediascape, Sociological Noir --$t7. Cyborg Affect and the Power of the Posthuman in the Ghost in the Shell Franchise --$t8. Playing with Negativity: Max Payne, Neoliberal Collapse, and the Noir Video Game --$t9. Chick Noir: Surveilling Femininity and the Affects of Loss in Gone Girl --$t10. Surplus Feelings: Neoliberal Noir and the Affective Economy of Debt --$t11. Capitalism as Affective Atmosphere: The Noir Worlds of Massimo Carlotto --$tAfterword: Melodrama, Noir?s Kid Sister, or Crying in Trump?s America --$tList of Contributors --$tIndex 330 $aNoir 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 in Noir Affect trace noir?s negativity as it manifests in different national contexts from the United States to Mexico, France, and Japan and in a range of different media, including films, novels, video games, and manga. The forms of affect associated with noir are resolutely negative: These are narratives centered on loss, sadness, rage, shame, guilt, regret, anxiety, humiliation, resentment, resistance, and refusal. Moreover, noir often asks us to identify with those on the losing end of cultural narratives, especially the criminal, the lost, the compromised, the haunted, the unlucky, the cast-aside, and the erotically ?perverse,? including those whose greatest erotic attachment is to death. Drawing on contemporary work in affect theory, while also re-orienting some of its core assumptions to address the resolutely negative affects narrated by noir, Noir Affect is invested in thinking through the material, bodily, social, and political?economic impact of the various forms noir affect takes. If much affect theory asks us to consider affect as a space of possibility and becoming, Noir Affect asks us to consider affect as also a site of repetition, dissolution, redundancy, unmaking, and decay. It also asks us to consider the way in which the affective dimensions of noir enable the staging of various forms of social antagonism, including those associated with racial, gendered, sexual, and economic inequality. Featuring an Afterword by the celebrated noir scholar Paula Rabinowitz and essays by an array of leading scholars, Noir Affect aims to fundamentally re-orient our understanding of noir.Contributors: Alexander Dunst, Sean Grattan, Peter Hitchcock, Justus Nieland, Andrew Pepper, Ignacio Sánchez Prado, Brian Rejack, Pamela Thoma, Kirin Wachter-Grene 606 $aFilm noir 608 $aElectronic books. 610 $aAffect. 610 $aFilm Noir. 610 $aNegativity. 610 $aNeoliberalism. 610 $aNoir. 610 $aPopular Culture. 610 $aPsychoanalysis. 610 $aPulp literature. 610 $aVideo Games. 615 0$aFilm noir. 676 $a791.430909355 702 $aBreu$b Christopher 702 $aHatmaker$b Elizabeth A. 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910478926403321 996 $aNoir affect$91894669 997 $aUNINA