Blackout: World War II and the Origins of Film Noir by Sheri Chinen Biesen

Blackout: World War II and the Origins of Film Noir

Sheri Chinen Biesen

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nonfiction art history slow-paced
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Challenging conventional scholarship placing the origins of film noir in postwar Hollywood, Sheri Chinen Biesen finds the genre's roots firmly planted in the political, social, and material conditions of Hollywood during the war. After Pearl Harbo...

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