Chapter 5. Melodrama/Male Drama: The Sentimental Contract of American Labor Films

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. Preface and Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction: on Pulp Modernism 1
5. Part 1. Black Rooms and Rage
6. Chapter 1. Already Framed: Esther Bubley Invents Noir 25
7. Chapter 2. Domestic Labor: Film Noir, Proletarian Literature, and Black Women’S Fiction 60
8. Chapter 3. Double Cross: Wri(Gh)Ting as the Outsider 82
9. Part 2. White Work And Memory
10. Chapter 4. Blanc Noir: Rural Pulp And Documentary Modernism 105
11. Chapter 5. Melodrama/Male Drama: The Sentimental Contract of American Labor Films 121
12. Chapter 6. Not “Just the Facts, Ma’Am”: Social Workers as Private Eyes 142
13. Part 3. Noir Household Objects
14. Chapter 7. Barbara Stanwyck’s Anklet 171
15. Chapter 8. Medium Uncool: Avant-Garde Film and Uncanny Feminism 193
16. Chapter 9. Mapping Noir 225
17. Notes 245
18. Index 295