Black & White & Noir: America's Pulp Modernism

by Paula Rabinowitz

Book Overview

Black & White & Noir explores America's pulp modernism through penetrating readings of the noir sensibility lurking in an eclectic array of media: Office of War Information photography, women's experimental films, and African-American novels, among others. It traces the dark edges of cultural detritus blowing across the postwar landscape, finding in pulp a political theory that helps explain America's fascination with lurid spectacles of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231114818
• ISBN13: 9780231114813
• Release Date: July 2002
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.4" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher