EUR  â¬134.40EUR  â¬112.00 excl. VAT
From Sunshine to Noir
Revisiting Sixties Los Angeles in Postmillennial Crime Narratives
Series: - European Perspectives on the United States, Volume: 16
Author:
Why does twenty-first-century noir keep returning to 1960s Los Angeles? This book shows how contemporary novels and films â from Inherent Vice to Once Upon a Time in⦠Hollywood â use noir to investigate memory, power, and resistance under late capitalism. It examines how Sixties Los Angeles becomes a privileged terrain for detection, from the Watts Riots to the Manson murders, enabling noir to recover erased histories of race, surveillance, and counterculture. Combining American Studies with Marxist critical theory, the book invites you to rethink noir not as a mere nostalgia for the past, but as a renewed cultural form through which the contradictions of neoliberal capitalism become legible.
Antonio Di Vilio, Ph.D., is Adjunct Professor of Anglo-American Literature at the University of Naples Federico II. In 2023, he was a visiting researcher at UCLA. His research interests include American noir, California literature, film, pop culture, and critical theory.
This book is for scholars and students in American Studies, Literary Studies, Film and Media Studies, and Cultural Studies, particularly those working on Los Angeles narratives, noir, popular culture, race, and neoliberal capitalism.