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.
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