Breu, Christopher
Noir Affect
- ISBN 13:
- 9780823287666
- author:
- Breu, Christopher
- format:
- Paperback / softback
- publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2020
- Pages:
- 304
- Dimensions:
- 22.91 x 15.19 x 1.73 centimetres
- Genre:
- Nonfiction, Politics, History & Theory,
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 10 working days
Description
Noir Affect explores the concept of noir as a negative affective disposition, rather than a specific cycle of films or novels. This new understanding emphasizes that noir is characterized by narratives centered on loss, sadness, and other forms of negativity. The essays in Noir Affect examine how noir manifests in different national contexts and media, including films, novels, video games, and manga. These forms of affect are resolutely negative, often focusing on themes such as loss, shame, guilt, and resistance. By drawing on contemporary work in affect theory, the book aims to think through the material, bodily, social, and political-economic impact of noir affect. Noir Affect also considers how the affective dimensions of noir enable the staging of various forms of social antagonism, including those associated with racial, gendered, sexual, and economic inequality.
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