Research Catalog

Details

Description

1. 1 online resource (xxxv, 178 p.) : ill.

Series statement

1. Working in the Americas

Uniform title

1. Film noir, American workers, and postwar Hollywood (Online)
2. Working in the Americas.

Alternative title

1. Film noir, American workers, and postwar Hollywood (Online)

Subject

1. Film noir > United States > History and criticism
2. Crime films > United States > History and criticism
3. Working class in motion pictures

Contents

1. Let a thousand fetish objects bloom -- The Home-front detective as dissident lawman (and -woman): Hammett, Chandler, Woolrich, and 1940s Hollywood -- Noir part 1: socialism in one genre: wildcat strikers, fugitive outsiders, and a savage lament -- Noir part 2: fugitive kinds -- The McCarthyite crime film: the time of the (quasi-scientific) toad (criminal/informer/vigilante cops versus psychotic fugitives) -- The neo-noirers: fugitives, surrealists, and the return of the degenerate detective -- Crime films of each film noir period.

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. [157]-169) and index.

Access (note)

1. Access restricted to authorized users.

Author

1. Broe, Dennis.

Title

1. Film noir, American workers, and postwar Hollywood [electronic resource] / Dennis Broe ; foreword by Richard Greenwald and Timothy Minchin.

Imprint

1. Gainesville : University Press of Florida, c2009.

Series

1. Working in the Americas
2. Working in the Americas.

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. [157]-169) and index.

Access

1. Access restricted to authorized users.

Connect to:

1. Available from home with a valid library card
2. Available onsite at NYPL

LCCN

1. 2008035071