America Is Elsewhere: The Noir Tradition in the Age of Consumer CultureAmerica is Elsewhere provides a rigorous and creative reconsideration of hard boiled crime fiction and the film noir tradition within three related postwar contexts: 1) the rise of the consumer republic in the United States after World War II 2) the challenge to traditional notions of masculinity posed by a new form of citizenship based in consumption, and 3) the simultaneous creation of authenticity effects representational strategies designed to