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…
American culture after the end of World War II has been characterized by an abiding pessimism most clearly manifested in the film noirs of the period. The author challenges this "noir and Zeitgeist" reading and proposes that the view of American cinema and society it develops re…
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…