{"product_id":"noir-affect-paperback-softback-9780823287666","title":"Noir Affect (Paperback \/ softback) 9780823287666","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eNoir Affect\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eChristopher Breu (Edited by), Elizabeth A. Hatmaker (Edited by), Paula Rabinowitz (Afterword by), Christopher Breu (Contributions by), Alexander Dunst (Contributions by), Sean Grattan (Contributions by), Elizabeth A. Hatmaker (Contributions by), Peter Hitchcock (Contributions by), Justus Nieland (Contributions by), Andrew Pepper (Contributions by), Brian Rejack (Contributions by), Ignacio Sánchez Prado (Contributions by), Pamela Thoma (Contributions by), Kirin Wachter-Grene (Contributions by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780823287666\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 2 June 2020\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e304 pages, 11\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.1 cm, 0.346 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eNoir Affect \u003c\/i\u003eproposes a new understanding of noir as defined by negative affect. This new understanding emphasizes that noir is, first and foremost, an affective disposition rather than a specific cycle of films or novels associated with a given time period or national tradition. Instead, the essays in \u003ci\u003eNoir Affect \u003c\/i\u003etrace noir's negativity as it manifests in different national contexts from the United States to Mexico, France, and Japan and in a range of different media, including films, novels, video games, and manga.\u003cbr\u003e The forms of affect associated with noir are resolutely negative: These are narratives centered on loss, sadness, rage, shame, guilt, regret, anxiety, humiliation, resentment, resistance, and refusal. Moreover, noir often asks us to identify with those on the losing end of cultural narratives, especially the criminal, the lost, the compromised, the haunted, the unlucky, the cast-aside, and the erotically \"perverse,\" including those whose greatest erotic attachment is to death. Drawing on contemporary work in affect theory, while also re-orienting some of its core assumptions to address the resolutely negative affects narrated by noir, \u003ci\u003eNoir Affect \u003c\/i\u003eis invested in thinking through the material, bodily, social, and political–economic impact of the various forms noir affect takes.\u003cbr\u003e If much affect theory asks us to consider affect as a space of possibility and becoming, \u003ci\u003eNoir Affect\u003c\/i\u003e asks us to consider affect as also a site of repetition, dissolution, redundancy, unmaking, and decay. It also asks us to consider the way in which the affective dimensions of noir enable the staging of various forms of social antagonism, including those associated with racial, gendered, sexual, and economic inequality. Featuring an Afterword by the celebrated noir scholar Paula Rabinowitz and essays by an array of leading scholars, \u003ci\u003eNoir Affect \u003c\/i\u003eaims to fundamentally re-orient our understanding of noir.\u003cbr\u003e Contributors: Alexander Dunst, Sean Grattan, Peter Hitchcock, Justus Nieland, Andrew Pepper, Ignacio Sánchez Prado, Brian Rejack, Pamela Thoma, Kirin Wachter-Grene\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePreface\u003c\/i\u003e   vii\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/b\u003e: Dark Passages\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eChristopher Breu and Elizabeth A. Hatmaker\u003c\/i\u003e   1\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e1.\u003c\/b\u003e Toward \u003ci\u003eAlphaville\u003c\/i\u003e: Noir, Midcentury Communication, and the Management of Affect\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJustus Nieland\u003c\/i\u003e   29\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e2.\u003c\/b\u003e Public Violence as Private Pathology: Noir Affect in \u003ci\u003eThe End of a Primitive\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eChristopher Breu\u003c\/i\u003e   59\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e3. \u003c\/b\u003eCold Kink: Race and Sex in the African American Underworld\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eKirin Wachter-Grene\u003c\/i\u003e   78\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e4. \u003c\/b\u003eNoir Pedagogy: The Problem of Student Masochism in the Classroom Economy\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eElizabeth A. Hatmaker\u003c\/i\u003e   99\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e5.\u003c\/b\u003e The Shadows of the Twilight World: Beebo Brinker and the Circulation of Affect\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eSean Grattan\u003c\/i\u003e   122\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e6.\u003c\/b\u003e Peripheral Noir, Mediation, and Capitalism: Noir Form, Noir Mediascape, Sociological Noir\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eIgnacio M. Sánchez Prado\u003c\/i\u003e   137\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e7.\u003c\/b\u003e Cyborg Affect and the Power of the Posthuman in the\u003ci\u003e Ghost in the Shell \u003c\/i\u003eFranchise\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003ePeter Hitchcock\u003c\/i\u003e   156\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e8.\u003c\/b\u003e Playing with Negativity: \u003ci\u003eMax Payne\u003c\/i\u003e, Neoliberal Collapse, and the Noir Video Game\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eBrian Rejack\u003c\/i\u003e   178\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e9.\u003c\/b\u003e Chick Noir: Surveilling Femininity and the Affects of Loss in \u003ci\u003eGone Girl\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003ePamela Thoma\u003c\/i\u003e   197\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e10.\u003c\/b\u003e Surplus Feelings: Neoliberal Noir and the Affective Economy of Debt\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAlexander Dunst\u003c\/i\u003e   222\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e11.\u003c\/b\u003e Capitalism as Affective Atmosphere: The Noir Worlds of Massimo Carlotto\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAndrew Pepper \u003c\/i\u003e  241\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eAfterword\u003c\/b\u003e: Melodrama, Noir's Kid Sister, or Crying in Trump's America\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003ePaula Rabinowitz\u003c\/i\u003e   261\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eList of Contributors\u003c\/i\u003e   275\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eIndex\u003c\/i\u003e   279\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Fordham University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52744851259672,"sku":"9780823287666","price":31.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/noir-affect-paperback-softback-9780823287666","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}