Noir Affect proposes 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 Noir Affect trace 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.
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, Noir
Affect is invested in thinking through the material, bodily,
social, and political-economic impact of the various forms noir
affect takes. If much affect theory asks us to consider affect as a
space of possibility and becoming, Noir Affect 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, Noir Affect aims to fundamentally
re-orient our understanding of noir. Contributors: Alexander Dunst,
Sean Grattan, Peter Hitchcock, Justus Nieland, Andrew Pepper,
Ignacio Sanchez Prado, Brian Rejack, Pamela Thoma, Kirin
Wachter-Grene
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