a Jans B. Wager, Author at Bright Lights Film Journal

Author: Jans B. Wager

Jans B. Wager is the author of three books on representation and film noir: Dangerous Dames: Women and Representation in the Weimar Street Film and Film Noir (1999), Dames in the Driver’s Seat: Rereading Film Noir (2005), and Jazz and Cocktails: Rethinking Race and the Sound of Film Noir (2017). She contributed the chapter on Ida Lupino in Film Noir: The Directors (2012) and the entry on Lupino in Oxford Bibliographies in Cinema and Media Studies. Her recent essay “The Midge Ending: Vertigo (1958) and the Role of the Third Women” appears in Alfred Hitchcock and Film Noir (2024).