The noir forties
Subtitle: the American people from victory to Cold War
By: Richard Lingeman
Publisher: Nation Books
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 420
ISBN-13: 9781568584362; 9781568586908
Subjects: Politics and government; Intellectual life; History and criticism; Social change; Social conditions; Social psychology; Film noir; History
Description: Examines the social, political, and popular culture of America in the period between VJ Day and the start of the Korean War, discussing the country's anxieties and insecurities at the onset of the Red Scare and the Cold War.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue: Confessions of a Cold Warrior (I); title: Victory Dreams; title: DOA; title: Reconversion Jitters; title: Home Strange Home; title: The Big Walkout; title: Red Dawn on Sunset Strip; title: Urban Noir; title: The Guns of March; title: The Lonely Passion of Henry Wallace; title: Korea : Drawing a Line; title: Epilogue: Why Korea? Why Nagasaki?; title: Confessions of a Cold Warrior (II).