Dames in the driver's seat [[electronic resource] ] : rereading film noir / / Jans B. Wager |
Autore | Wager Jans B. <1958-> |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Austin, : University of Texas Press, c2005 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (203 p.) |
Disciplina | 791.43/6552 |
Soggetto topico |
Film noir - History and criticism
Sex role in motion pictures Race in motion pictures Social classes in motion pictures |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 0-292-79684-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910451659503321 |
Wager Jans B. <1958-> | ||
Austin, : University of Texas Press, c2005 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Dames in the driver's seat [[electronic resource] ] : rereading film noir / / Jans B. Wager |
Autore | Wager Jans B. <1958-> |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Austin, : University of Texas Press, c2005 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (203 p.) |
Disciplina | 791.43/6552 |
Soggetto topico |
Film noir - History and criticism
Sex role in motion pictures Race in motion pictures Social classes in motion pictures |
ISBN | 0-292-79684-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Introduction. DAMES AND DRIVING -- Part 1: Contents and Contexts -- 1. Manning the Posts: Classic Noir, Postclassic Noir, and Postmodernism -- 2. Sexing the Paradigm: Women and Men in Noir -- 3. Racing the Paradigm: The Whiteness of Film Noir -- Part 2: Prototypes in Classic Noir -- 4. The Killers (1946): Quintessential Noir? -- 5. Out of the Past (1947): Passive Masculinity and Active Femininities -- 6. Kiss Me Deadly (1955): Apocalyptic Femmes -- Part 3: Return of the Repressed in Retro-Noir -- 7. L.A. Confidential (1997) and Casablanca (1942): Does Anything Change as Time Goes By? -- 8. Mulholland Falls (1996): Nuclear Noir as Numbskull Noir -- 9. Fight Club (1999): Retro-Noir Masquerades as Neo-Noir -- Part 4: Revision of the Repressed in Neo-Noir -- 10. Twilight (1998): Age, Beauty, and Star Power-Survival of the Fittest -- 11. Fargo (1996): A Woman Who Is Not Herself Mean- Snow-swept Highways and Margie -- 12. Jackie Brown (1997): Gender, Race, Class, and Genre -- Conclusion. Doing It for bell: Cultural Criticism and Social Change -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910777573803321 |
Wager Jans B. <1958-> | ||
Austin, : University of Texas Press, c2005 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Dames in the driver's seat : rereading film noir / / Jans B. Wager |
Autore | Wager Jans B. <1958-> |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Austin, : University of Texas Press, c2005 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (203 p.) |
Disciplina | 791.43/6552 |
Soggetto topico |
Film noir - History and criticism
Sex role in motion pictures Race in motion pictures Social classes in motion pictures |
ISBN | 0-292-79684-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Introduction. DAMES AND DRIVING -- Part 1: Contents and Contexts -- 1. Manning the Posts: Classic Noir, Postclassic Noir, and Postmodernism -- 2. Sexing the Paradigm: Women and Men in Noir -- 3. Racing the Paradigm: The Whiteness of Film Noir -- Part 2: Prototypes in Classic Noir -- 4. The Killers (1946): Quintessential Noir? -- 5. Out of the Past (1947): Passive Masculinity and Active Femininities -- 6. Kiss Me Deadly (1955): Apocalyptic Femmes -- Part 3: Return of the Repressed in Retro-Noir -- 7. L.A. Confidential (1997) and Casablanca (1942): Does Anything Change as Time Goes By? -- 8. Mulholland Falls (1996): Nuclear Noir as Numbskull Noir -- 9. Fight Club (1999): Retro-Noir Masquerades as Neo-Noir -- Part 4: Revision of the Repressed in Neo-Noir -- 10. Twilight (1998): Age, Beauty, and Star Power-Survival of the Fittest -- 11. Fargo (1996): A Woman Who Is Not Herself Mean- Snow-swept Highways and Margie -- 12. Jackie Brown (1997): Gender, Race, Class, and Genre -- Conclusion. Doing It for bell: Cultural Criticism and Social Change -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910814101703321 |
Wager Jans B. <1958-> | ||
Austin, : University of Texas Press, c2005 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Jazz and cocktails : rethinking race and the sound of film noir / / Jans B. Wager |
Autore | Wager Jans B. <1958-> |
Edizione | [First edition.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Austin, Texas : , : University of Texas Press, , [2017] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (176 pages) |
Disciplina | 791.43/6578 |
Soggetto topico |
Jazz in motion pictures
Film noir - History and criticism Race in motion pictures Sound in motion pictures Motion pictures and music |
ISBN | 1-4773-1228-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
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. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910158580303321 |
Wager Jans B. <1958-> | ||
Austin, Texas : , : University of Texas Press, , [2017] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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