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Film noir : a critical introduction / Ian Brookes.

By: Brookes, Ian (Instructor on film) [author.]Material type: TextTextSeries: Bloomsbury film genres seriesPublisher: New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2017Description: vii, 275 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781780933269 (hardback : alk. paper); 9781780933139 (pbk. : alk. paper)Subject(s): Film noir -- History and criticismAdditional physical formats: Online version:: Film noirDDC classification: 791.436 BRO LOC classification: PN1995.9.F54 | B78 2017
Contents:
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.
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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.

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