"Noir, Paula Rabinowitz argues, is not merely a film genre but also a form of historical sensibility, constituted as it is in the blurry boundaries between 'trashy' pulp fiction and 'serious' political events. Coming to terms with noir is thus coming to terms with perhaps the predominant mode of knowledge production of our time. No one interested in the cultural politics of twentieth-century America can afford to ignore the vast implications of this erudite and visionary book." -- Rey Chow, Brown University
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"Rabinowitz's analysis yields provocative insights." -- Choice
" Black & White & Noir draws our attention to the connections between history, cinema and crime fiction and the range of viewpoints inhabiting their respective underworlds. It deserves wide readership." -- William Field, Crime Time
" Black and White possesses a philosophical dimension, forcing its readers to reconsider their presuppositions about noir. Rabinowitz constantly pushes against the boundaries of the concept, inviting us to contemplate its significations and how they are valuable or important." -- Dan Flory, American Quarterly
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"...this povacative, wide-ranging study..." -- Robert Miklitsch, Film Quarterly
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There comes a moment in many film noirs when the bad girl emerges snarling with anger as she ensnare the dimwitted doomed guy. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
pulp modernism, white femme fatale, many film noirs, documentary rhetoric, noir world, femme noire, noir hero, revolutionary fiction, literary radicals, involutional melancholia, domestic melodrama, film culture Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Esther Bubley, United States, World War, Cross Damon, Barbara Stanwyck, Harlan County, Communist Party, Double Indemnity, Los Angeles, Maud Martha, Sterile Sun, Miss Bailey, Richard Wright, Miss America, Van Gogh, Aunt Hester, New Deal, Out of the Past, Popular Front, San Francisco, African Americans, Mildred Pierce, Thelma Jordan, Walter Neff New!
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pulp modernism, white femme fatale, many film noirs, documentary rhetoric, noir world, femme noire, noir hero, revolutionary fiction, literary radicals, involutional melancholia, domestic melodrama, film culture Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Esther Bubley, United States, World War, Cross Damon, Barbara Stanwyck, Harlan County, Communist Party, Double Indemnity, Los Angeles, Maud Martha, Sterile Sun, Miss Bailey, Richard Wright, Miss America, Van Gogh, Aunt Hester, New Deal, Out of the Past, Popular Front, San Francisco, African Americans, Mildred Pierce, Thelma Jordan, Walter Neff New!
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- Chicago: City on the Make: 50th Anniversary Edition, Newly Annotated by Nelson Algren in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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