Back to Black provides the first full-length critical analysis of Jules Feiffer’s late-career graphic novels Kill My Mother (2014), Cousin Joseph (2016), and The Ghost Script (2018), examining how they pay playful homage to the cinematic techniques and iconography of film noir while addressing serious themes like McCarthyism, antisemitism, and gender discrimination.
Back to Black provides the first full-length critical analysis of Jules Feiffer’s late-career graphic novels Kill My Mother (2014), Cousin Joseph (2016), and The Ghost Script (2018), examining how they pay playful homage to the cinematic techniques and iconography of film noir while addressing serious themes like McCarthyism, antisemitism, and gender discrimination.
FABRICE LEROY is a professor of Francophone studies at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. He is the author of Sfar So Far: Identity, History, Fantasy, and Mimesis in Joann Sfar’s Graphic Novels and coeditor of the collections Intermediality in French-Language Comics and Graphic Novels and The Cambridge Companion to the American Graphic Novel.
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Introduction: Back to Black Chapter One: From Oedipus to Hollywood: Trauma and Simulacrum in Kill My Mother Chapter Two: Cousin Joseph: A Noir Take on the American Dream Chapter Three: Revenge, Repetition, and Reflexivity in The Ghost Script Conclusion: Homage, Experimentation, and Irony in the Trilogy Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index Introduction: Back to Black 1 1 Kill My Mother: From Oedipal Trauma to Hollywood Simulacrum 13 2 Cousin Joseph: A Noir Take on the American Dream 65 3 The Ghost Script: Revenge, Repetition, and Reflexivity 123 Conclusion: Homage, Experimentation, and Irony in the Trilogy 175 Acknowledgments 181 Notes 183 References 197 Index 000
Introduction: Back to Black Chapter One: From Oedipus to Hollywood: Trauma and Simulacrum in Kill My Mother Chapter Two: Cousin Joseph: A Noir Take on the American Dream Chapter Three: Revenge, Repetition, and Reflexivity in The Ghost Script Conclusion: Homage, Experimentation, and Irony in the Trilogy Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index Introduction: Back to Black 1 1 Kill My Mother: From Oedipal Trauma to Hollywood Simulacrum 13 2 Cousin Joseph: A Noir Take on the American Dream 65 3 The Ghost Script: Revenge, Repetition, and Reflexivity 123 Conclusion: Homage, Experimentation, and Irony in the Trilogy 175 Acknowledgments 181 Notes 183 References 197 Index 000
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