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Author : Richard Lingeman
Publisher : Nation Books
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 22,59 MB
Release : 2012-12-04
Category : History
ISBN : 1568584369
Examines the social, political and popular culture of America in the period between VJ Day and the start of the Korean War, discussing the country's anxieties and insecurities at the onset of the Red Scare and the Cold War. 15,000 first printing.
Author : Margaret Talbot
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 33,54 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1594631883
Using the life and career of her father, writer Margaret Talbot tells the story of the rise of popular culture through a personal lens. The arc of Lyle Talbot's career is in fact the story of American entertainment. Born in 1902, Lyle left small-town Nebraska in 1918 to join a traveling carnival. From there he became a magician's assistant, an actor in a traveling theater troupe, a romantic lead in early talkies, then an actor in major Warner Bros. pictures, then an actor in cult B movies, and finally a part of the advent of television, with regular roles on The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet and Leave It to Beaver. In her impeccably researched narrative--a combination of Hollywood history, social history, and family memoir--Margaret Talbot conjures warmth and nostalgia for those earlier eras of '10s and '20s small-town America, '30s and '40s Hollywood.--From publisher description.
Author : Kimberly Truhler
Publisher : Goodknight Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 28,98 MB
Release : 2021-01-12
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781732273597
Explores twenty definitive film noir titles from 1941 to 1950 and traces the evolution of popular fashion in the decade of the 1940s, the impact of World War II on home-front fashion, and the influence of the film noir genre on popular fashion.
Author : John Kobal
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 20,82 MB
Release : 1977-01-01
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9780486235462
One hundred six famous actresses and actors are portrayed in full-page pictures by twenty-four leading Hollywood photographers
Author : George Lipsitz
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 13,2 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780252063947
Rainbow at Midnight details the origins and evolution of working-class strategies for independence during and after World War II. Arguing that the 1940s may well have been the most revolutionary decade in U.S. history, George Lipsitz combines popular culture, politics, economics, and history to show how war mobilization transformed the working class and how that transformation brought issues of race, gender, and democracy to the forefront of American political culture. This book is a substantially revised and expanded work developed from the author's heralded 1981 Class and Culture in Cold War America.
Author : Peggy Thompson
Publisher : Arsenal Pulp PressLtd
Page : 95 pages
File Size : 14,38 MB
Release : 1992-01-01
Category : Film noir
ISBN : 9780889782570
A collection of quotables from those gritty movies from the mid-forties to the mid-fifties featuring losers and drifters, dreamers and grifters, immortalized by the TV late show.
Author : Alain Silver
Publisher : Bloomsbury Academic
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 14,51 MB
Release : 2004-10
Category : Film noir
ISBN : 9780715632659
The photos in this book include production stills from many noir gems which illustrate the style and capture the impact of this atmospheric cinematic genre. The accompanying text explores the origins of noir and its history from the early 1940s to the present day.
Author : Andrew Spicer
Publisher :
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 45,32 MB
Release : 2016-01-29
Category : Film noir
ISBN : 9781138174573
Lucidly written, Film Noir is an accessible informative and stimulating introduction that has a broad appeal to undergraduates, cineastes, film teachers and researchers.Film Noir is an overview of an often celebrated, but also contested, body of films. It discusses film noir as a cultural phenomenon whose history is more extensive and diverse than American black and white crime thrillers of the forties. An extended Background Chapter situates film noir within its cultural context, describing its origin in German Expressionism, French Poetic Realism and in developments within American genres, the gangster/crime thriller, horror and the Gothic romance and its possible relationship to changes in American society.
Author : Mark T. Conard
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 23,64 MB
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Reference
ISBN : 0813123771
Explores philosophical themes and ideas inherent in classic noir and neo-noir films, establishing connections to diverse thinkers ranging from Camus to the Frankfurt School. The authors, each focusing on a different aspect of the genre, explores the philosophical underpinnings of classic films.
Author : Ronald Schwartz
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 18,39 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780810856769
According to many critics, the era of "Film Noir" ended with the 1958 release of Orson Welles' classic Touch of Evil. The style was not dead, but rather had been transformed, and two years later, Alfred Hitchcock ushered in a new era of "Noir" films with the release of his 1960 masterpiece, Psycho. Film scholar Ronald Schwartz examines the most significant representatives of this cinematic style, beginning with Hitchcock's shocker and concluding with Michael Mann's Collateral (2004). Schwartz provides in-depth analyses of over thirty of the best "Neo-Noir" films and explains the qualities and characteristics of the "new noir" style. He also explains how it differs from "Film Noir" of the forties and fifties. As this study reveals, the new style significantly impacted American film after 1960. In this chronological guide, Schwartz examines such landmark films as The Manchurian Candidate (1962), Point Blank (1967), The French Connection (1971), Chinatown (1974), Taxi Driver (1976), Body Heat (1981), Blood Simple (1984), Fatal Attraction (1987), The Grifters (1990), Reservoir Dogs (1992), The Usual Suspects (1995), L.A. Confidential (1997), Memento (2000), and Mystic River (2003). The book also includes an alphabetical filmography, listing over 650 films that in plot, style, or subject matter reflect the diversity of the genre. This reference work will be a valuable resource for film scholars and fans alike who wish to further explore the ever-evolving aspects of "Neo-Noir" cinema.