Hollywood Genres and Post-War America: Masculinity, Family and Nation in Popular Movies and Film Noir
(Part of the Cinema and Society Series)
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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...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1850438382
ISBN13:9781850438380
Release Date:January 2006
Publisher:I. B. Tauris & Company
Length:232 Pages
Weight:0.80 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 6.3" x 9.2"
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