Film Noir, American Workers, and Postwar Hollywood [electronic resource] /
Broe, Dennis.
Gainesville : University Press of Florida,
c2009.
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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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.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [157]-169) and index.
Let a thousand fetish objects bloom -- The Home-front detective as dissident lawman (and -woman): Hammett, Chandler, Woolrich, and 1940s Hollywood -- Noir part 1: socialism in one genre: wildcat strikers, fugitive outsiders, and a savage lament -- Noir part 2: fugitive kinds -- The McCarthyite crime film: the time of the (quasi-scientific) toad (criminal/informer/vigilante cops versus psychotic fugitives) -- The neo-noirers: fugitives, surrealists, and the return of the degenerate detective -- Crime films of each film noir period.
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Working class in motion pictures.
Crime films
Film noir