books.google.co.uk - American culture after the end of World War II has been characterized by an abiding pessimism most clearly manifested in the film noirs of the period. Mike Chopra-Gant challenges this "noir and Zeitgeist" reading and proposes that the view of American cinema and society it develops relies on a retrospective...http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Hollywood_Genres_and_Post_war_America.html?id=RVdCSSVd_KQC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareHollywood Genres and Post-war America
