TY  - DATA
AU  - Chopra-Gant, Mike,
TI  - Hollywood genres and postwar America: masculinity, family and nation in popular movies and film noir 
SN  - 1423768191
U1  - 791.430973 22
PY  - 2019///
CY  - [London, England]
PB  - Bloomsbury Publishing
KW  - Families in motion pictures
KW  - Film noir
KW  - United States
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Masculinity in motion pictures
KW  - Men in motion pictures
KW  - Motion pictures
KW  - Films, cinema
KW  - bicssc
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 194-214) and index
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.5040/9780755698851?locatt=label:secondary_bloomsburyCollections
ER  -