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- Title
Racialized Darkness and Ace in the Hole.
- Authors
Helford, Elyce Rae
- Abstract
Limited scholarly attention has been devoted to Billy Wilder’s Ace in the Hole (1951), at least in part because of limited availability before its 2007 DVD release. While Wilder biographies and available criticism focus primarily on the film’s critique of tabloid journalism, this study explores the film’s engagement with racialized darkness, figured in Native American imagery and engagement with Jewishness and Holocaust survivor guilt. I argue that seemingly superficial markers of racial and cultural difference in the film, particularly when read through film noir anxiety, reveal significant cultural concerns of the immediate postwar era, including those of its émigré writer, producer, and director.
- Publication
JCMS: Journal of Cinema & Media Studies, 2022, Vol 61, Issue 3, p36
- ISSN
2578-4900
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/cj.2022.0023