Brookes, Ian  (Instructor on film), <br/><br/>
Film noir :  a critical introduction / 
Ian Brookes. 
 - vii, 275 pages :  illustrations ;  25 cm. 
 - Bloomsbury film genres series .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-243), filmography (pages 244-256) and index. 
<br/><br/>Introduction -- What is film noir? Genre and the problem of film noir -- Visual style and narrative themes -- Genre and gender -- The history of film noir. Prehistory and the wartime period, 1939-1945 -- The postwar period, 1945-1950 -- The late period, 1950-1958 -- Case study: the veteran problem and postwar film noir. The discourse of veteran readjustment -- The veteran and the readjustment narrative -- Conformity, community, and citizenship -- Coda: the end of film noir. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781780933269 (hardback : alk. paper) 9781780933139 (pbk. : alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2016038797 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Film noir--History and criticism.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PN1995.9.F54  / B78 2017 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>791.436 BRO  / 21264