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Biesen adds a new perspective that enhances scholarship on the subject and makes this book a must.
Ms Biesen describes too how film noir drew on societal anxieties as Americans faced fear, loss and shortages during the war and viewed ever-more-harrowing newsreel footage. 'As life on the homefront became increasingly hard-boiled,' she writes, 'so too did American film.'
Biesen's book is readable, informative and jargon free... Biesen uses her research into studio archives, the films' attendant publicity and the contemporary press to bring alive the wartime period of film noir and its transformation into a post-war genre for dealing with troubled veterans returning home, the coming of the Cold War, nuclear angst and the effects of McCarthyism on Hollywood and the nation at large.
Readers will come away from Blackout with a fuller understanding of the industrial and historical contexts of wartime film noir.
This text offers a compelling history of wartime Hollywood and a provocative challenge to current noir scholarship.
An important contribution to the history of film noir.
A film noir aficionado, Biesen provides the most detailed and thoroughly researched interpretation of this era's American film noir.
The author is to be congratulated on producing an exemplary study in empirical film history.
This volume stands out as one of the best and perhaps the single most essential book in English on film noir. Biesen reveals an untold part of the movement with originality, sophistication, and vitality. Her work will become a foundation for subsequent interpretation of film noir, as well as an ideal text in film, history, and cultural studies courses.
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Trim Size
6
x 9
Pages
264
ISBN
9780801882180
Illustration Description
20 halftones
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. The Elements of Noir Come Together
Chapter 3. Hollywood in the Aftermath of Pearl Harbor
Chapter 4. Censorship, Hard-Boiled Fiction
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. The Elements of Noir Come Together
Chapter 3. Hollywood in the Aftermath of Pearl Harbor
Chapter 4. Censorship, Hard-Boiled Fiction, and Hollywood's "Red Meat" Crime Cycle
Chapter 5. Rosie the Riveter Goes to Hollywood
Chapter 6. Hyphenates and Hard-Boiled Crime
Chapter 7. Black Film, Red Meat
Notes
Index
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