Film noir and the cinema of paranoia

Film noir and the cinema of paranoia / Wheeler Winston Dixon.

Film Noir and the Cinema of Paranoia is an overview of 20th- and 21st-century noir and fatalist film practice from 1945 onwards. The book demonstrates the ways in which American cinema has inculcated a climate of fear in our daily lives, as reinforced, starting in the 1950s, by television, and later...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dixon, Wheeler W., 1950- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, 2009.
Subjects:
Film noir > United States > History and criticism.
Film noir
United States
USA
USA.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:
  • The dream of return
  • The postwar bubble
  • Fifties death trip
  • The flip side of the sixties
  • The failure of culture
  • Living in fear.

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