America Noir: Underground Writers and Filmmakers of the Postwar Era
Item Number
PS374.P63C63
Author/Artist/Editor
David Cochran
Type
Book, Hard Copy
Date
2000
Press/Publisher
Smithsonian Institution Press
Language
English
Description
In America Noir David Cochran details how ten writers and filmmakers probed the Cold War's cultural contradictions and indirectly challenged its social pieties: the superiority of American democracy, the benevolence of free enterprise, and the sanctity of the suburban family." "Cochran argues that these artists pioneered a detached, ironic sensibility in fictions that radically juxtaposed cultural references and blurred the distinctions between "high" and "low" art. Their works would play a crucial role in the emergence of not only a 1960s counterculture but also the postmodernism of a later era.
Keywords
Film, American Film, Noir
ISSN/ISBN
1-58834-218-2
Availability
Available
OCLC
42289708