Dark Borders: Film Noir and American Citizenship

Dark Borders: Film Noir and American Citizenship
ISBN-10
0822350068
ISBN-13
9780822350064
Category
History
Pages
268
Language
English
Published
2011-03-25
Publisher
Duke University Press
Author
Jonathan Auerbach

Description

Shows how politics and aesthetics merge in American film noirs made between the late 1930s and the mid-1950s; their oft-noted uncanniness betrays the fear that un-American foes lurk within the homeland.

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