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Hollywood Genres and Postwar America

Masculinity, Family and Nation in Popular Movies and Film Noir

Hollywood Genres and Postwar America( )
Author: Chopra-Gant, Mike
Series title:Cinema and Society Ser.
ISBN:978-1-85043-838-0
Publication Date:Jan 2006
Publisher:I. B. Tauris & Company, Limited
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $35.95
Book Description:

This is a clear and engrossing account of how popular films in America just after the close of the Second World War played out America's mood at that crucial time. It is also a revisionist challenge to received scholarly understanding of this mood, which has tended to be seen as characterized by an abiding pessimism most clearly manifested in the films noir of the period. Chopra-Gant makes here an important contribution to film genre, which proposes that the 'noir and Zeitgeist'...
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Book Details
Pages:232
Detailed Subjects: Performing Arts / Film / General
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):6.12 x 9.12 x 0.69 Inches
Book Weight:0.8 Pounds



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