Hollywood Genres and Post-War America: Masculinity, Family and Nation in Popular Movies and Film Noir

by Mike Chopra-Gant

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1850438382
• ISBN13: 9781850438380
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.2"