Power and Paranoia : : History, Narrative, and the American Cinema, 1940–1950 / / 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.
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Archive 1898-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [1986] ©1986 |
| Year of Publication: | 1986 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (338 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- 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