LEADER 04641nam 2200649 a 450 001 9910814101703321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-292-79684-6 024 7 $a10.7560/706941 035 $a(CKB)1000000000457713 035 $a(OCoLC)614535404 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10245789 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000134579 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11146354 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000134579 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10055775 035 $a(PQKB)10569052 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3443302 035 $a(OCoLC)62762735 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse2125 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3443302 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10245789 035 $a(DE-B1597)586992 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780292796843 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000457713 100 $a20050413d2005 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aDames in the driver's seat $erereading film noir /$fJans B. Wager 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aAustin $cUniversity of Texas Press$dc2005 215 $a1 online resource (203 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-292-70694-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tCONTENTS -- $tACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- $tIntroduction. DAMES AND DRIVING -- $tPart 1: Contents and Contexts -- $t1. Manning the Posts: Classic Noir, Postclassic Noir, and Postmodernism -- $t2. Sexing the Paradigm: Women and Men in Noir -- $t3. Racing the Paradigm: The Whiteness of Film Noir -- $tPart 2: Prototypes in Classic Noir -- $t4. The Killers (1946): Quintessential Noir? -- $t5. Out of the Past (1947): Passive Masculinity and Active Femininities -- $t6. Kiss Me Deadly (1955): Apocalyptic Femmes -- $tPart 3: Return of the Repressed in Retro-Noir -- $t7. L.A. Confidential (1997) and Casablanca (1942): Does Anything Change as Time Goes By? -- $t8. Mulholland Falls (1996): Nuclear Noir as Numbskull Noir -- $t9. Fight Club (1999): Retro-Noir Masquerades as Neo-Noir -- $tPart 4: Revision of the Repressed in Neo-Noir -- $t10. Twilight (1998): Age, Beauty, and Star Power-Survival of the Fittest -- $t11. Fargo (1996): A Woman Who Is Not Herself Mean- Snow-swept Highways and Margie -- $t12. Jackie Brown (1997): Gender, Race, Class, and Genre -- $tConclusion. Doing It for bell: Cultural Criticism and Social Change -- $tNotes -- $tWorks Cited -- $tIndex 330 $aWith its focus on dangerous, determined femmes fatales, hardboiled detectives, and crimes that almost-but-never-quite succeed, film noir has long been popular with moviegoers and film critics alike. Film noir was a staple of classical Hollywood filmmaking during the years 1941-1958 and has enjoyed a resurgence in popularity since the 1990s. Dames in the Driver's Seat offers new views of both classical-era and contemporary noirs through the lenses of gender, class, and race. Jans Wager analyzes how changes in film noir's representation of women's and men's roles, class status, and racial identities mirror changes in a culture that is now often referred to as postmodern and postfeminist. Following introductory chapters that establish the theoretical basis of her arguments, Wager engages in close readings of the classic noirs The Killers, Out of the Past, and Kiss Me Deadly and the contemporary noirs L. A. Confidential, Mulholland Falls, Fight Club, Twilight, Fargo, and Jackie Brown. Wager divides recent films into retro-noirs (made in the present, but set in the 1940s and 1950s) and neo-noirs (made and set in the present but referring to classic noir narratively or stylistically). Going beyond previous studies of noir, her perceptive readings of these films reveal that retro-noirs fulfill a reactionary social function, looking back nostalgically to outdated gender roles and racial relations, while neo-noirs often offer more revisionary representations of women, though not necessarily of people of color. 606 $aFilm noir$xHistory and criticism 606 $aSex role in motion pictures 606 $aRace in motion pictures 606 $aSocial classes in motion pictures 615 0$aFilm noir$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aSex role in motion pictures. 615 0$aRace in motion pictures. 615 0$aSocial classes in motion pictures. 676 $a791.43/6552 700 $aWager$b Jans B.$f1958-$01177838 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910814101703321 996 $aDames in the driver's seat$94081168 997 $aUNINA