Description |
1 online resource |
Contents |
Cover -- NOIR AFFECT -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- Introduction: Dark Passages -- 1. Toward Alphaville: Noir, Midcentury Communication, and the Management of Affect -- 2. Public Violence as Private Pathology: Noir Affect in The End of a Primitive -- 3. Cold Kink: Race and Sex in the African American Underworld -- 4. Noir Pedagogy: The Problem of Student Masochism in the Classroom Economy -- 5. The Shadows of the Twilight World: Beebo Brinker and the Circulation of Affect -- 6. Peripheral Noir, Mediation, and Capitalism: Noir Form, Noir Mediascape, Sociological Noir |
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7. Cyborg Affect and the Power of the Posthuman in the Ghost in the Shell Franchise -- 8. Playing with Negativity: Max Payne, Neoliberal Collapse, and the Noir Video Game -- 9. Chick Noir: Surveilling Femininity and the Affects of Loss in Gone Girl -- 10. Surplus Feelings: Neoliberal Noir and the Affective Economy of Debt -- 11. Capitalism as Affective Atmosphere: The Noir Worlds of Massimo Carlotto -- Afterword: Melodrama, Noir's Kid Sister, or Crying in Trump's America -- List of Contributors -- Index |
Summary |
Noir Affect defines noir in relationship to negative affect. It traces noir's negativity as it manifests in different national contexts and a range of different media. The forms of affect associated with noir are resolutely negative: loss, sadness, rage, shame, guilt, regret, anxiety, humiliation, resentment, resistance, and refusal |
Analysis |
Affect |
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Film Noir |
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Negativity |
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Neoliberalism |
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Noir |
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Popular Culture |
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Psychoanalysis |
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Pulp literature |
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Video Games |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 02, 2020) |
Subject |
Arts, Noir -- Criticism and interpretation
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Film noir -- History and criticism
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Noir fiction -- History and criticism
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Semiotics & Theory.
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Arts, Noir
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Film noir
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Noir fiction
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Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Breu, Christopher, editor.
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Hatmaker, Elizabeth, editor.
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ISBN |
9780823287789 |
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0823287785 |
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9780823287796 |
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0823287793 |
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9780823290390 |
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0823290395 |
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