9780199969913, 0199969914, 9780199969920, and 0199969922
Description:
x, 299 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Bibliographic Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-285) and index
Contents:
Last chance Texaco: gas station noir -- The publishing class: detectives and executives in noir fiction -- The gumshoe vanishes: conspiracy film in the sixties era -- Flirters, deserters, wimps and pimps: Pynchon's two Americas -- Black ops: ghetto space and counterconspiracy -- Postmodern authenticity, or, cyberpunk -- The space of the clock: the corporation as genre in the Hudsucker Proxy
Summary:
"America is Elsewhere provides a rigorous and creative reconsideration of hard-boiled crime fiction and the film noir tradition within three related postwar contexts: 1) the rise of the consumer republic in the United States after World War II 2) the challenge to traditional notions of masculinity posed by a new form of citizenship based in consumption, and 3) the simultaneous creation of "authenticity effects"--Representational strategies designed to safeguard an image of both the American male and America itself outside of and in opposition to the increasingly omnipresent marketplace."--Publisher website