TY  - BOOK
AU  - Brookes,Ian
TI  - Film noir: a critical introduction 
T2  - Bloomsbury film genres series
SN  - 9781780933269 (hardback : alk. paper)
AV  - PN1995.9.F54 B78 2017
U1  - 791.436 BRO 23
PY  - 2017///
CY  - New York
PB  - Bloomsbury Academic
KW  - Film noir
KW  - History and criticism
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-243), filmography (pages 244-256) and index; 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
ER  -