Black & White & Noir - America's Pulp Modernism : America's Pulp Modernism

Preface and Acknowledgments ix Introduction: On Pulp Modernism 1(24) PART I BLACK: ROOMS AND RAGE Already Framed: Esther Bubley Invents Noir 25(35) Domestic Labor: Film Noir, Proletarian Literature, and Black Women's Fiction 60(22) Double Cross: Wri(gh)ting as The Outsider 82(23) PART 2 WHITE: WORK AND MEMORY Blanc Noir: Rural Pulp and Documentary Modernism 105(16) Melodrama/Male Drama: The Sentimental Contract of American Labor Films 121(21) Not ``Just the Facts, Ma'am'': Social Workers as Private Eyes 142(29) PART 3 NOIR: HOUSEHOLD OBJECTS Barbara Stanwyck's Anklet 171(22) Medium Uncool: Avant-Garde Film and Uncanny Feminism 193(32) Mapping Noir 225(20) Notes 245(50) Index 295