Trump and the Resurgence of American Noir

This essay considers the political persona of Donald Trump as mediated by the imagery of hardboiled detective fiction and film noir. As responses to crises of capitalism, corruption, and social fracture, noir narratives provide critical ways of investigating periods of disequilibrium, and their resu...

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Main Author: Virginia Newhall Rademacher
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Deakin University 2016-12-01
Series:Persona Studies
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Online Access:https://ojs.deakin.edu.au/index.php/ps/article/view/617