Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index.
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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