Life In Plastic: New Book Explores Artistic Responses To The Age Of Plastic
With impressive breadth and compelling urgency, the essays in Life in Plastic examine the arts and literature of the plastic age.
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With impressive breadth and compelling urgency, the essays in Life in Plastic examine the arts and literature of the plastic age.
A vital contribution to environmental humanities that explores artistic responses to the plastic age
Laura Kennedy / WGLT A world-weary detective...a cynical femme fatale...a bleak night world of sex and violence. Think Humphrey Bogart, Gloria Graham, Dana Andrews, Audrey Totter. Now think again--about noir. A new book from a pair of Illinois State University English professors proposes a fresh understanding of the classic genre. “Noir Affect” (Fordham University Press) reveals that noir is more than simply a specific cycle of mid-century American movies or novels. In a deep dive beneath the surface, co-editors Christopher Breu and the late Elizabeth Hatmaker, along wit...