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100			_aChopra-Gant, Mike, _eauthor. _918017
245			_aHollywood genres and postwar America : _bmasculinity, family and nation in popular movies and film noir / _cMike Chopra-Gant.
250			_aFirst edition.
260			_aLondon [England] : _bI.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd, _c2006.
264			_a[London, England] : _bBloomsbury Publishing, _c2019.
300			_a1 online resource (x, 219 pages) : _billustrations.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 194-214) and index.
520			_aThis 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.
650			_aFamilies in motion pictures. _918018
650			_aFilm noir _zUnited States _xHistory and criticism. _918019
650			_aMasculinity in motion pictures. _918020
650			_aMen in motion pictures. _918021
650			_aMotion pictures _zUnited States. _918022
650			_aFilms, cinema _2bicssc _918023
856			_3Abstract with links to full text _uhttps://doi.org/10.5040/9780755698851?locatt=label:secondary_bloomsburyCollections
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