ABSTRACT This article traces film noir's conflicted place in postwar American consumer culture.Using detailed analyses of supermarket scenes in Double Indemnity, The Long Goodbye, and Fight Club, it argues that the films stage a struggle between two competing versions of the American national character: the consumer society versus the noir underworld.
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2006
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