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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 characterized by an abiding pessimism most clearly manifested in the films noir of the period. Chopra-Gant makes here an important contribution to film genre, which proposes that the 'noir and Zeitgeist' reading is based

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Author

Mike Chopra-Gant

Publisher

I.B. Tauris; Distributed in the U.S. by Palgrave Macmillan; Brand: I. B. Tauris; I.B.Tauris

Published

2006

Language

EN

ISBN

9786000008406

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Sports, Literary Fiction

Updated

2026-03-25