Doing it for bell: cultural criticism and social change. Sexing the paradigm: women and men in noir -- Racing the paradigm: the whiteness of film noir -- The killers Conclusion: Out of the past (1947): passive masculinity and active femininities -- Kiss me deadly (1955): apocalyptic femmes -- L.A. confidential (1997) and Casablanca (1942): does anything change as time goes by? -- Mulholland Falls (1996): nuclear noir as numbskull noir -- Fight club (1999): retro-noir masquerades as neo-noir -- Twilight (1998): age, beauty, and star power: survival of the fittest -- Fargo (1996): a woman who is not herself mean: snow-swept highways and Margie -- Jackie brown (1997): gender, race, class, and genre -- Conclusion: Doing it for bell: cultural criticism and social change.
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