Hollywood genres and postwar America
Subtitle: masculinity, family and nation in popular movies and film noir
By: Mike Chopra-Gant.
Series: Cinema and society series; Cinema and society
Publisher: I.B. Tauris Pub.; Distributed in the U.S. by Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2006
Place of publication: London; New York; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 219
ISBN-13: 9781850438151; 9781850438380
Subjects: Masculinity in motion pictures; Men in motion pictures; Family in motion pictures; Motion pictures -- United States; Film noir -- United States -- History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [194]-214) and index.
Table of contents: title: Movies, genre and zeitgeist; title: Re-invigorating the nation: popular films and American national identity; title: The troubled postwar family: "moms" and absent fathers; title: Performing postwar masculinities; title: Military service and male companionship; title: Popular films and "tough" movies; title: Genre and history.