- Description
- xxxv, 178 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- Working in the Americas
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [157]-169) and index.
- Contents
- Let a thousand fetish objects bloom -- The Home-front detective as dissident lawman (and -woman): Hammett, Chandler, Woolrich, and 1940s Hollywood -- Noir part 1: socialism in one genre: wildcat strikers, fugitive outsiders, and a savage lament -- Noir part 2: fugitive kinds -- The McCarthyite crime film: the time of the (quasi-scientific) toad (criminal/informer/vigilante cops versus psychotic fugitives) -- The neo-noirers: fugitives, surrealists, and the return of the degenerate detective -- Crime films of each film noir period.
- Call Number
- MFL 09-3617
- ISBN
- 9780813033228 (alk. paper)
- 0813033225 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2008035071
- OCLC
- 226356616
- Author
Broe, Dennis.
- Title
Film noir, American workers, and postwar Hollywood / Dennis Broe ; foreword by Richard Greenwald and Timothy Minchin.
- Imprint
Gainesville : University Press of Florida, c2009.
- Series
Working in the Americas
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [157]-169) and index.
- Research Call Number
MFL 09-3617