Power and Paranoia : : History, Narrative, and the American Cinema, 1940–1950 / / Dana Polan.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Archive 1898-1999
• VerfasserIn: Polan, Dana,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [1986]; ©1986
• Year of Publication: 1986
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (338 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; A Note on the Films --; Introduction --; 1. Writing the Space of the Forties --; 2. Wartime Unity: The Representation of Institutions and the Institutions of Representation --; 3. Narrative limits: The Fiction of War and the War of Fictions --; 4. Knowledge and Human Interests: Science, Cinema, and the Secularization of Horror --; 5. Blind Insights and Dark Passages: The Problem of Placement --; 6. Beyond Narrative: The Space and Spectacle of the Forties --; Notes --; Name and Subject Index --; Film Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780231888448; 9783110442489
• DOI: 10.7312/pola92384
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Dana Polan.

A post-structural analysis of Hollywood films from the 1940s, with a particular focus on those meant to inspire the Allied forces during World War II.