Jazz and Cocktails: Rethinking Race and the Sound of Film Noir by Jans B. Wager

Jazz and Cocktails: Rethinking Race and the Sound of Film Noir

Jans B. Wager

176 pages paperback

2 editions

nonfiction art history medium-paced
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Film noir showcased hard-boiled men and dangerous femmes fatales, rain-slicked city streets, pools of inky darkness cut by shards of light, and, occasionally, jazz. Jazz served as a shorthand for the seduction and risks of the mean streets in earl...

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