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Complicated traditional scholarship inserting the origins of film noir in postwar Hollywood, Sheri Chinen Biesen finds the genre’s roots firmly planted in the political, social, and material problems of Hollywood throughout the war. Soon after Pearl Harbor, The usa and Hollywood skilled a sharp cultural transformation that created horror, shock, and violence not only palatable but preferable. Tough periods necessitated more affordable sets, less lights, and contemporary expertise censors as well as the film-going public showed a new tolerance for sexual intercourse and violence and female producers experienced newfound prominence in the industry.
Biesen delivers prodigious archival research, obtainable prose, and imaginative insights to the two effectively-acknowledged movies noir of the wartime period―The Maltese Falcon, The Big Sleep, and Double Indemnity―and others generally ignored or underrated―Scarlet Road, Ministry of Dread, Phantom Lady, and Stranger on the 3rd Floor.
