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: Elizabeth A. Hatmaker was a poet, theorist, and teacher. She was instructional assistant professor at Illinois State University. She was the author of two books of poetry, Infrastructures (2015) and Girl in Two Pieces (2009). She passed away in 2015 due to complications from ALS.
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"