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Film Noir, American Workers, and Postwar Hollywood /
"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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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Gainesville :
University Press of Florida,
2009.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| 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.