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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.

Detective and mystery stories, American --- Noir fiction, American --- Film noir --- National characteristics, American, in literature. --- Masculinity in literature. --- Masculinity (Psychology) in literature --- History and criticism. --- Littérature policière américaine --- Roman noir américain. --- Films noirs --- Caractère national américain --- Masculinité --- Histoire et critique. --- Histoire. --- Dans la littérature. --- Fiction --- Thematology --- American literature --- Detective and mystery stories [American ] --- History and criticism --- Noir fiction [American ] --- United States --- National characteristics [American ] in literature --- Masculinity in literature