Class, Crime and International Film Noir argues that, in its postwar, classical phase, this dark variant of the crime film was not just an American phenomenon. Rather, these seedy tales with their doomed heroes and heroines were popular all over the world including France, Britain, Italy and Japan.

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Welcome aboard! This soundscape follows a train journey from platform to destination. Come aboard and get comfortable in the compartment. The rhythmic hum of the train is perfect for closing your eyes and relaxing.

"Dennis Broe, a renowned scholar of film noir, has written his own hard-boiled noir masterpiece, sprinkled with murder, blackmail, and sexual intrigue"—Peter Kuznick, co-author with Oliver Stone of The Untold History of the United States"A terse mash-up of hard-boiled prose and good old-fashioned historical research" --Jon Lewis, author of Hard-Boiled Hollywood: Crime and Punishment in Postwar Los Angeles"A well-written, entertaining pastiche of the Chandler/Ross Macdonald ...

A Hello To ArmsSemi-corruptible ex-LAPD cop Harry Palmer is hired by an African-American defense industry worker who claims he was a victim of workplace contaminants. He needs Harry's help to get his pension from an airline industry which may or may not be going bankrupt. Harry is also asked to plug a leak in the Henry Wallace presidential campaign which is sabotaging its efforts to get off the ground. As he follows a trail strewn with corpses and sex, confronting airline industry ...

The coziest soundscape. Imagine you are at home. The window is open and there's a very light drizzle of rain outside. Your neighbor is practicing piano and the notes drift into your room. You make a hot drink, pick up a book, and cuddle up on the sofa under a cozy blanket, now you're ready to hygge.

Diary of a Digital Plague Year: Corona Culture, Serial TV and The Rise of The Streaming Services"With his latest masterwork, Dennis Broe confirms what some of us already knew: when it comes to parsing and interrogating popular culture, he has no peer."-- Gerald Horne, author, Paul Robeson: The Artist as Revolutionary"Broe's mastery of history, economics, and media let him provide details and insights that few other writers can match. These short, readable essays offer convi...

Imagine a beautiful skiing trip in a winter wonderland. Snow crunches under your boots, your skis cut rhythmically through the snow and you can practically feel the fresh cold air on your cheeks. Alone among the snow heavy pine trees it feels like the rest of the world is asleep.

Cold War Expressionism is an expose of the art world after World War II where a new triumphalism and a growing conservatism on the part of the US helped bring to power a depoliticized art which went under the rubric of Abstract Expressionism and which functioned as an advertisement for American capitalism while erasing the social impulses of prior European Modernisms and the American Social Expressionists of the 1930s and mid-1940s.This book details how more socially aware forms of ...

"A good read with plenty of twists and turns" "Jake Gittes eat your heart out"Harry and Crystal in their deadliest adventure yet."Dennis Broe has done it again. On the one hand, we have his usual electrifying prose, dense atmospheric feel for LA, and sharp plotting. On the other, we have the sneaking sense that the backdrop of the 1950s Hollywood blacklist is becoming our own backdrop. Today. Dissident voices about world politics are being silenced...

Film noir, which flourished in 1940s and 50s, reflected the struggles and sentiments of postwar America. Dennis Broe contends that the genre, with its emphasis on dark subject matter, paralleled the class conflict in labor and union movements that dominated the period.By following the evolution of film noir during the years following World War II, Broe illustrates how the noir figure represents labor as a whole. In the 1940s, both radicalized union members and protagonists of noir ...

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