[Commlist] New book: Dark Film, Blood Money: The Economic Unconscious of American Neo-Noir Cinema

Intellect is pleased to share that /Dark Film, Blood Money: The Economic 
Unconscious of American Neo-Noir Cinema 
<https://www.intellectbooks.com/dark-film-blood-money>/, by Vernon 
Shetley, is out in hardback and e-book.

The book presents an interpretation of neo-noir filmmaking through the 
lens of economics, based on readings of central neo-noir works from the 
noir revival of the early 1970s to recent films. Analyzing key themes 
and figures of neo-noir – desire and betrayal, corruption and 
alienation, the private detective and the femme fatale – the project 
reads neo-noir filmmaking as a privileged site for the expression of 
anxieties around work, money, trust, and exchange. Neo-noir filmmaking 
embodies a profound reflection on the hollowing-out of economic and 
social life, the collapse of trust, the erosion of institutions, and 
fears regarding legacy and identity, developments that have undermined 
the promise of American life in the long twilight of the American dream 
since the end of postwar prosperity.


*_Table of Contents
_*
*List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction: *Nightcrawler Nation

*1.* Incest and Capital in Neo-Noir
*2. *Incest and Modernity: Mean Streets and After
*3. *The Private Eye as Professional: Charisma and Ambivalence
*4. *Femme Fatales and Other Marginalized Workers
*5.* Feminism, the Femme Fatale, and the Problem of Trust
*6.* Lesbian Noir as Solution to the Problem of Trust
*7. *Noir Legacies: Race
*8. *Noir Legacies: Influence

*Conclusion: *Waking Nightmares
*References
Index*


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www.intellectbooks.com/dark-film-blood-money
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