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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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