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Author:   Jans B. Wager
Publisher:   University of Texas Press
Imprint:   University of Texas Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.286kg
ISBN:  

9781477312278

ISBN 10:   1477312277
Pages:   176
Publication Date:   21 March 2017
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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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"

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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 *

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Jans 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.

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