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swicksy's review
4.0
Sheri (who has a great blog and has one of my favorite twitter accounts) chronicles how wartime Film Noir was affected by wartime conditions such as blackouts, perceived enemy invasions on the West Coast, Joseph Breen and the infamous Hays office who were dedicated to keeping Hollywood "clean" through censorship. The book covers Noir films from the attack on Pearl Harbor in the December of 1941 through to the end of the war, and discusses the impact beyond wartime. The key film at play in her thesis is DOUBLE INDEMNITY and she makes a great case for that (she also makes a fantastic one for post-war noir with THE BLUE DAHLIA). Definitely worth checking out.
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