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- Book Title
- Blackout
- Publication Name
- Blackout : World War II and the Origins of Film Noir
- Title
- Blackout
- Subtitle
- World War II and the Origins of Film Noir
- Format
- Perfect
- ISBN-10
- 0801882184
- EAN
- 9780801882180
- ISBN
- 9780801882180
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Genre
- Films & TV
- Release Year
- 2006
- Release Date
- 06/01/2006
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 0.6in
- Item Length
- 9in
- Item Width
- 6in
- Item Weight
- 14.4 Oz
- Publication Year
- 2005
- Type
- Textbook
- Number of Pages
- 264 Pages
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Product Information
Challenging conventional scholarship, which places the origins of film noir in postwar Hollywood, Sheri Chinen Biesen finds the genre's roots firmly planted in the political, social, and historical conditions of Hollywood during the war.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN-10
0801882184
ISBN-13
9780801882180
eBay Product ID (ePID)
45100766
Product Key Features
Publication Name
Blackout : World War II and the Origins of Film Noir
Format
Perfect
Language
English
Publication Year
2005
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
264 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9in
Item Height
0.6in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
14.4 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Pn1995.9.F54b53 2005
Grade from
College Freshman
Grade to
College Graduate Student
Reviews
"Biesen adds a new perspective that enhances scholarship on the subject and makes this book a must." -- Choice, "Ms Biesen describes too how film noir drew on societal anxieties as Americans faced fear, loss and shortages during the war and viewed ever-more-harrowing newsreel footage. 'As life on the homefront became increasingly hard-boiled, ' she writes, 'so too did American film.'" -- Nina Ayoub, Chronicle of Higher Education, "Biesen adds a new perspective that enhances scholarship on the subject and makes this book a must. Summing up: Essential."-- Choice, "An important contribution to the history of film noir." -- Jan-Christopher Horak, Screening the Past, "Readers will come away from Blackout with a fuller understanding of the industrial and historical contexts of wartime film noir." -- Charles Maland, Cineaste, "This text offers a compelling history of wartime Hollywood and a provocative challenge to current noir scholarship." -- Southern California Quarterly, Biesen's book is readable, informative and jargon free... Biesen uses her research into studio archives, the films' attendant publicity and the contemporary press to bring alive the wartime period of film noir and its transformation into a post-war genre for dealing with troubled veterans returning home, the coming of the Cold War, nuclear angst and the effects of McCarthyism on Hollywood and the nation at large., Ms Biesen describes too how film noir drew on societal anxieties as Americans faced fear, loss and shortages during the war and viewed ever-more-harrowing newsreel footage. 'As life on the homefront became increasingly hard-boiled,' she writes, 'so too did American film.', Readers will come away from Blackout with a fuller understanding of the industrial and historical contexts of wartime film noir., A film noir aficionado, Biesen provides the most detailed and thoroughly researched interpretation of this era's American film noir., "The author is to be congratulated on producing an exemplary study in empirical film history." -- Brian Neve, Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television, "A film noir aficionado, Biesen provides the most detailed and thoroughly researched interpretation of this era's American film noir." -- Clayton Koppes, American Historical Review, This text offers a compelling history of wartime Hollywood and a provocative challenge to current noir scholarship., "Biesen's book is readable, informative and jargon free... Biesen uses her research into studio archives, the films' attendant publicity and the contemporary press to bring alive the wartime period of film noir and its transformation into a post-war genre for dealing with troubled veterans returning home, the coming of the Cold War, nuclear angst and the effects of McCarthyism on Hollywood and the nation at large." -- Times Literary Supplement, Biesen Adds a New Perspective That Enhances Scholarship on the Subject and Makes this Book Amust.
Table of Content
List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Chapter 1. Introduction Chapter 2. The Elements of Noir Come Together Chapter 3. Hollywood in the Aftermath of Pearl Harbor Chapter 4. Censorship, Hard-Boiled Fiction, and Hollywood's "Red Meat" Crime Cycle Chapter 5. Rosie the Riveter Goes to Hollywood Chapter 6. Hyphenates and Hard-Boiled Crime Chapter 7. Black Film, Red Meat Notes Index
Copyright Date
2006
Target Audience
College Audience
Topic
Film / Référence, Film / Genres / Crime, Film / History & Criticism
Lccn
2005-001866
Dewey Decimal
791.43/6556
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes
Genre
Performing Arts
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