Hollywood Genres and Postwar America: Masculinity, Family and Nation in Popular Movies and Film Noir (Cinema and Society)

by Mike Chopra - Gant (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2005

  $146.13

  An 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. This book is also a revisionist challenge to the scholarly understanding of this mood, has tended to be seen as characterized by an abiding pessimism most clearly manifested in the films noir of the period.