TY - BOOK ID - 78641888 TI - America is elsewhere : the noir tradition in the age of consumer culture PY - 2013 SN - 0199970734 9780199970735 9780199969913 0199969914 9780199969920 0199969922 1299940102 9781299940109 9780199369027 019936902X PB - New York : Oxford University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Detective and mystery stories, American KW - Noir fiction, American KW - Film noir KW - National characteristics, American, in literature. KW - Masculinity in literature. KW - Masculinity (Psychology) in literature KW - History and criticism. KW - Littérature policière américaine KW - Roman noir américain. KW - Films noirs KW - Caractère national américain KW - Masculinité KW - Histoire et critique. KW - Histoire. KW - Dans la littérature. KW - Fiction KW - Thematology KW - American literature KW - Detective and mystery stories [American ] KW - History and criticism KW - Noir fiction [American ] KW - United States KW - National characteristics [American ] in literature KW - Masculinity in literature UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78641888 AB - 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. ER -