Class, Crime and International Film Noir : Globalizing America's Dark Art
ISBN: 9781137290144
Platform/Publisher: Ebook Central / Palgrave Macmillan UK
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Subjects: Fine Arts;

Class, Crime and International Film Noir argues that, in its postwar, classical phase, this dark variant of the crime film was not just an American phenomenon. Rather, these seedy tales with their doomed heroes and heroines were popular all over the world including France, Britain, Italy and Japan.


Dennis Broe is Professor of Media Arts at Long Island University, USA. His Film Noir, American Workers and Postwar Hollywood was a Choice Outstanding Academic Book. He has written widely on political economy, studio history, and the Western in Cinema Journal, Jump Cut, Film and History, Framework, Social Justice, Situations, and Newsday. He is also a film critic on Pacifica Radio.
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