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Informationen zum Autor Jonathan Auerbach is Professor of English at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is the author of Body Shots: Early Cinema’s Incarnations; Male Call: Becoming Jack London, also published by Duke University Press; and The Romance of Failure: First-Person Fictions of Poe, Hawthorne, and James. Klappentext Shows how politics and aesthetics merge in American film noirs made between the late 1930s and the mid-1950s; their oft-noted uncanniness betrays the fear that un-American foes lurk within the homeland. Zusammenfassung Shows how politics and aesthetics merge in American film noirs made between the late 1930s and the mid-1950s; their oft-noted uncanniness betrays the fear that un-American foes lurk within the homeland. Inhaltsverzeichnis Illustrations vii Acknowledgments ix Introduction: The Un-Americanness of Film Noir 1 1. Gestapo in America: Confessions of a Nazi Spy and Stranger on the Third Floor 27 2. White Collar Murder: Double Indemnity 57 3. Cuba, Gangsters, Vets, and Other Outcasts of the Islands: The Chase and Key Largo 91 4. North From Mexico: Border Incident, Hold Back the Dawn, Secret Beyond the Door, and Out of the Past 123 5. Bad Boy Patriots: This Gun for Hire, Ride the Pink Horse, and Pickup on South Street 155 Postscript: Darkness Visible 185 Notes 205 Bibilography 245 Index 261
