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Investigates the fears and desires about sexuality and racial identity that

shape film noir.



NOIR ANXIETY

Kelly Oliver and Benigno Trigo

University of Minnesota Press | 352  pages | 2002

ISBN 0-8166-4109-9 | hardcover | $54.95

ISBN 0-8166-4110-2 | paperback | $19.95

 

Applying feminist and postcolonial psychoanalytic theory to traditional noir

films (Murder, My Sweet; The Lady from Shanghai; Vertigo; and Touch of Evil)

and the "neo-noirs" of the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s (Chinatown, Devil in a

Blue Dress, and Bound), the authors uncover a rich array of unconscious

worries and desires about ambiguous sexual, racial, and national identities,

often displaced onto these films¹ narrative and stylistic components. In

particular, Oliver and Trigo focus on the looming absence of the mother

figure within the genre and fears about maternal sexuality and

miscegenation. 



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