Hollywood genres and postwar America : masculinity, family and nation in popular movies and film noir /
Chopra-Gant, Mike,
Hollywood genres and postwar America : masculinity, family and nation in popular movies and film noir / Mike Chopra-Gant. - First edition. - London [England] : I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd, 2006. - 1 online resource (x, 219 pages) : illustrations.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 194-214) and index.
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.
1423768191 9780755698851 9781423768197
Families in motion pictures.
Film noir--History and criticism.--United States
Masculinity in motion pictures.
Men in motion pictures.
Motion pictures--United States.
Films, cinema
791.430973
Hollywood genres and postwar America : masculinity, family and nation in popular movies and film noir / Mike Chopra-Gant. - First edition. - London [England] : I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd, 2006. - 1 online resource (x, 219 pages) : illustrations.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 194-214) and index.
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.
1423768191 9780755698851 9781423768197
Families in motion pictures.
Film noir--History and criticism.--United States
Masculinity in motion pictures.
Men in motion pictures.
Motion pictures--United States.
Films, cinema
791.430973