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OverviewFilm noir showcased hard-boiled men and dangerous femmes fatales, rain-slicked city streets, pools of inky darkness cut by shards of light, and, occasionally, jazz. Jazz served as a shorthand for the seduction and risks of the mean streets in early film noir. As working jazz musicians began to compose the scores for and appear in noir films of the 1950s, black musicians found a unique way of asserting their right to participate fully in American life. Jazz and Cocktails explores the use of jazz in film noir, from its early function as a signifier of danger, sexuality, and otherness to the complex role it plays in film scores in which jazz invites the spectator into the narrative while simultaneously transcending the film and reminding viewers of the world outside the movie theater. Jans B. Wager looks at the work of jazz composers such as Miles Davis, Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn, Chico Hamilton, and John Lewis as she analyzes films including Sweet Smell of Success, Elevator to the Gallows, Anatomy of a Murder, Odds Against Tomorrow, and considers the neonoir American Hustle. Wager demonstrates how the evolving role of jazz in film noir reflected cultural changes instigated by black social activism during and after World War II and altered Hollywood representations of race and music. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Jans B. WagerPublisher: University of Texas Press Imprint: University of Texas Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.454kg ISBN: 9781477312261ISBN 10: 1477312269 Pages: 176 Publication Date: 21 March 2017 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of Contents"Acknowledgments Permissions Introduction: Nostalgia for the Lush Life Chapter 1: Pie Eye’s Juke Joint: Jazz and Its Interpretations Chapter 2: The Porters and Waiters Club: Jazz, Movies, and Ogden Chapter 3: Studio Jazz from Harlem to Acapulco Chapter 4: The Blue Gardenia, Club Pigalle, and Daniel’s: Charting the Alienation Effect in Film Noir Chapter 5: From Elysium to Robards, from Real to Reel Chapter 6: A Paris Bar where Miles Innovates Chapter 7: ""All the Very Gay Places"": Ellington and Strayhorn Swing in Northern Michigan Chapter 8: Cannoy’s Club: “All Men Are Evil” Chapter 9: “Jeep’s Blues” and Jazz Today Notes Bibliography Index"Reviews"""" Wager works at the intersection of film soundtrack studies and racial analyses of cinema to offer an account of the way film noir deploys jazz to further its often racially fraught designs...[a] painstaking study [with] insights into noir soundscapes. * African American Review * Author InformationJans B. Wager coordinates cinema studies and is a professor of English and literature at Utah Valley University. Her previous books are Dames in the Driver’s Seat: Rereading Film Noir and Dangerous Dames: Women and Representation in the Weimar Street Film and Film Noir. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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