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: Christopher Breu (he/they) is Professor of English at Illinois State University. He is the author of Insistence of the Material: Literature in the Age of Biopolitics and Hard-Boiled Masculinities. He is also co-editor (with Elizabeth A. Hatmaker) of Noir Affect (Fordham, 2020).
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"