Description: Noir Affect defines noir in relationship to negative affect. It traces noir's negativity as it manifests in different national contexts and a range of different media. The forms of affect associated with noir are resolutely negative: loss, sadness, rage, shame, guilt, regret, anxiety, humiliation, resentment, resistance, and refusal.
Brief description: Alexander Dunst is assistant professor of American Studies at the University of Paderborn. His research and teaching focus on twentieth-century cultural history, the digital humanities, and contemporary visual narrative. He is the author of Madness in Cold War America (2016) and is currently writing a book on the rise of the graphic novel.
Review Quotes: The volume does a fine job of locating noir in its cultural contexts in order to interrogate the social fissures that the genre opens up along the fault lines of race, gender, and sexuality... This is a book for those interested in film and media, political theory, and literary and cultural studies.-- "Choice"