Hollywood genres and postwar America : masculinity, family and nation in popular movies and film noir /
This is a clear and engrossing account of how popular films in America just after the close of the Second World War played out America's mood at that crucial time. It is also a revisionist challenge to received scholarly understanding of this mood, which has tended to be seen as characterized b...
| Основен автор: | Chopra-Gant, Mike. |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
London ; New York : New York :
I.B. Tauris Pub. ; Distributed in the U.S. by Palgrave Macmillan,
2006.
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| Серия: |
Cinema and society.
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=147494 |
| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
Hollywood genres and postwar America. |
| Резюме: |
This is a clear and engrossing account of how popular films in America just after the close of the Second World War played out America's mood at that crucial time. It is also a revisionist challenge to received scholarly understanding of this mood, which has tended to be seen as characterized by an abiding pessimism most clearly manifested in the films noir of the period. Chopra-Gant makes here an important contribution to film genre, which proposes that the 'noir and Zeitgeist' reading is based on the retrospective promotion of selected movies. He turns to the top box office successes of the. |
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| Физически характеристики: |
1 online resource (x, 219 pages) : illustrations. |
| Библиография: |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 194-214) and index. |
| ISBN: |
1423768191 9781423768197 9781850438151 1850438153 9781850438380 1850438382 6000008406 9786000008406 9780857713285 0857713280 |