America is Everywhere

[Dave Monroe]

America Is Elsewhere:
The Noir Tradition in the Age of Consumer Culture
Erik Dussere

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. Films like
Double Indemnity, Ace in the Hole, and Kiss Me Deadly alongside novels
by Dashiel Hammett and Raymond Chandler provide rich examples for the
first half of the study. The second is largely devoted to works less
commonly understood in relation to the hard-boiled and noir canon.
Examinations of the conspiracy films from the Seventies and Eighties
-- like Klute and The Parallax View -- novels by Thomas Pynchon,
Chester Himes and William Gibson reveal the persistence and evolution
of these authenticity effects across the second half of the American
twentieth century.

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Ch 4. Flirters, Deserters, Wimps and Pimps: Pynchon's Two Americas

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