Film noir, American workers, and postwar Hollywood /

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"Ever since French critics began using the term film noir in the mid-1940s, a clear definition of the genre has remained elusive. Though sometimes defined visually, there is more to film noir than meets the eye. This interdisciplinary examination argues for the central importance of class in th...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Broe, Dennis
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, ©2009.
Colección:Working in the Americas.
Temas:
Geschichte 1900-2000.
Geschichte 1940-1970.
Film noir > United States > History and criticism.
Crime films > United States > History and criticism.
Working class in motion pictures.
Films noirs > États-Unis > Histoire et critique.
Films criminels > États-Unis > Histoire et critique.
Travailleurs au cinéma.
ART > Film & Video.
PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video > Reference.
Crime films
Film noir
Working class in motion pictures
Kriminalfilm
Arbeiter > Motiv
Schwarzer Film.
Kriminalfilm.
Proletariat.
United States
USA
USA.
Hollywood.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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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