Noir Affect (eBook)

lt;b>Paula Rabinowitz (Afterword By)
Paula Rabinowitz is Professor Emerita of English at the University of Minnesota and serves as editor-in- chief of the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature. Her publications include numerous essays and books on mid-twentieth-century American culture, including Black and White and Noir: America’s Pulp Modernism (2002) and the prize-winning American Pulp: How Paperbacks Brought Modernism to Main Street (2014). She is currently working on a collection of essays titled “Into the Image” and a double biography of two fathers, “Cold War Dads: Family Secrets and the National Security State.” She lives in Queens, New York.

Christopher Breu (Edited By)
Christopher Breu is professor of English at Illinois State University where he teaches contemporary literature and culture and critical and cultural theory. He is the author of Insistence of the Material: Literature in the Age of Biopolitics (2014) and Hard-Boiled Masculinities (2005). He also is the editor of a special section on “Materialisms” in symplokē 24, nos. 1–2 (2017).

Elizabeth A. Hatmaker (Edited By)
Elizabeth A. Hatmaker was a poet, theorist, and teacher. She was instructional assistant professor at Illinois State University. She was the author of two books of poetry, Infrastructures (2015) and Girl in Two Pieces (2009). She passed away in 2015 due to complications from ALS.

Preface | vii

Introduction: Dark Passages
Christopher Breu and Elizabeth A. Hatmaker | 1

1. Toward Alphaville: Noir, Midcentury Communication, and the Management of Affect
Justus Nieland | 29

2. Public Violence as Private Pathology: Noir Affect in The End of a Primitive
Christopher Breu | 59

3. Cold Kink: Race and Sex in the African American Underworld
Kirin Wachter-Grene | 78

4. Noir Pedagogy: The Problem of Student Masochism in the Classroom Economy
Elizabeth A. Hatmaker | 99

5. The Shadows of the Twilight World: Beebo Brinker and the Circulation of Affect
Sean Grattan | 122

6. Peripheral Noir, Mediation, and Capitalism: Noir Form, Noir Mediascape, Sociological Noir
Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado | 137

7. Cyborg Affect and the Power of the Posthuman in the Ghost in the Shell Franchise
Peter Hitchcock | 156

8. Playing with Negativity: Max Payne, Neoliberal Collapse, and the Noir Video Game
Brian Rejack | 178

9. Chick Noir: Surveilling Femininity and the Affects of Loss in Gone Girl
Pamela Thoma | 197

10. Surplus Feelings: Neoliberal Noir and the Affective Economy of Debt
Alexander Dunst | 222

11. Capitalism as Affective Atmosphere: The Noir Worlds of Massimo Carlotto
Andrew Pepper | 241

Afterword: Melodrama, Noir’s Kid Sister, or Crying in Trump’s America
Paula Rabinowitz | 261

List of Contributors | 275

Index | 279