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 d