America is Elsewhere provides a rigorous and creative
reconsideration of hard-boiled crime fiction and the film noir
tradition within three related postwar contexts: 1) the rise of the
consumer republic in the United States after World War II 2) the
challenge to traditional notions of masculinity posed by a new form
of citizenship based in consumption, and 3) the simultaneous
creation of "authenticity effects" - representational strategies
designed to safeguard an image of both the American male and
America itself outside of and in opposition to the increasingly
omnipresent marketplace. Films like Double Indemnity, Ace in the
Hole, and Kiss Me Deadly alongside novels by Dashiel Hammett and
Raymond Chandler provide rich examples for the first half of the
study. The second is largely devoted to works less commonly
understood in relation to the hard-boiled and noir canon.
Examinations of the conspiracy films from the Seventies and
Eighties-like Klute and The Parallax View-novels by Thomas Pynchon,
Chester Himes and William Gibson reveal the persistence and
evolution of these authenticity effects across the second half of
the American twentieth century.
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