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. |
Съдържание:
- List of Tables; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction: Movies, Genre and Zeitgeist; 2. Re-invigorating the nation: popular films and American national identity; 3. The troubled postwar family: "moms" and absent fathers; 4. Performing postwar masculinities; 5. Military service and male companionship; 6. Popular films and "tough" movies; 7. Genre and History; Notes; Bibliography; Index.