Film Noir, American Workers, and Postwar Hollywood

Film Noir, American Workers, and Postwar Hollywood
ISBN-10
081303549X
ISBN-13
9780813035499
Category
Crime films
Language
English
Published
2009
Author
Dennis Broe

Description

Film noir, which flourished in 1940s and 50s, reflected the struggles and sentiments of postwar America. Dennis Broe contends that the genre, with its emphasis on dark subject matter, paralleled the class conflict in labor and union movements that dominated the period.

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