Hollywood War Films 
.... Because of this a slew of
films during the
1940s helped to turn the enemy into an "evil" "other", while highlighting the need for patriotism, courage, and ....
(3029
12
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Black Films, Black Filmmakers Black films from the 1930s and 194
.... Black issues were almost completely absent from Hollywood
films and would remain so until at least the late
1940s when
films like Intruder in the Dust (1949 ....
(2586
10
)
Italian Mafia in the Media in the 1940s and 1950s
Italian Mafia in the Media in the
1940s and 1950s. .... Most notable among these are images of the Italian mafia portrayed in
films such as "The Godfather" and ....
(1512
6
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The Life and Films of Alfred Hitchcock
.... of periods, beginning with the silent
films as a block and then listing the British sound
films as another. The first American period lasted through the
1940s. ....
(1443
6
)
Early Black Films Black films from the 1920s, 1930s, a
Black
films from the 1920s, 1930s, and
1940s were produced by black filmmakers for a black circuit and were rarely seen by white audiences. ....
(3456
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Gangster Films
.... Both
films reflect certain conventions of the gangster film genre, including the iconography of .... The story is set in the
1940s, and the American society of the ....
(2366
9
)
Race Films & Black Female Filmmakers
.... The technical quality of these
films started to show improvement in the 1930s and
1940s, and black audiences by then were becoming acquainted with the various ....
(2778
11
)
Popular Hollywood Film
.... The myths reaffirmed by
films of the
1940s, 1950s, and those few simplistic and single-dimensions
films of later eras that did try to reaffirm the values and ....
(982
4
)
Film Noir Style of Blade Runner
.... American
films in the
1940s were dominated by the film noir, so much so that "it came to identify both the narrative-cinematic style of those
films and also ....
(1743
7
)
Perception of Arabs in the US Media
.... Arabs were largely romanticized and viewed as exotic and part of an alluring Orientalism during the
1940s. Hollywood
films were fast to capitalize on such ....
(1242
5
)
Perception of Arabs
.... Arabs were largely romanticized and viewed as exotic and part of an alluring Orientalism during the
1940s. Hollywood
films were fast to capitalize on such ....
(1242
5
)
Film Noir Film Genre
The term was applied long after by French critics who noticed a stylistic shift in American
films in the
1940s, and as Thomas Schatz notes, this style ....
(1952
8
)
Race and Film
.... force in Crimson Tide, while it is viewed as central in the historical context of
1940s Los Angeles in Devil in a Blue Dress. Both
films are examples of a ....
(1651
7
)
FILM NOIR
.... Film noir is a genre of cynical, bleak
films which originated in Hollywood during the
1940s and 1950s.As mentioned earlier, many of the scenes in the
films ....
(748
3
)
Film Noir & Neo-Noir
Film Noir is a cinematic style that dominated post World War II Hollywood
films. "Throughout the
1940s, a stylistic and thematic trend was developing in ....
(1349
5
)
The gangster genre in film
.... Breathless draws its inspiration from American crime
films of the
1940s and uses the conventions found there to express a different view of the urban criminal ....
(1974
8
)
Feature Films
.... Feature
films had been made from radio series in the
1940s based on the same desire--to appeal to fans of the series and to cross-advertise the series and the ....
(2834
11
)
Film Noir
the term was applied long after by French critics who noticed a stylistic shift in American
films in the
1940s, and as Thomas Schatz notes, this style ....
(1658
7
)
"Good Amerians," and Films
.... The next era in American history covered by the
films under discussion continues the saga .... The story is set in the
1940s, and the American society of the time ....
(1685
7
)
Influence of Film Noir
The term was applied long after by French critics who noticed a stylistic shift in American
films in the
1940s, and as Thomas Schatz notes, this style ....
(1636
7
)
An Overview of the History of Film Festivals
.... Cowie (S13) claims that Cannes, among these early festivals, seemed throughout the
1940s and 1950s to focus its awards on
films made in France or by French ....
(1632
7
)
The films of Takeshi Kitano
.... 1997). The heroes of these
films derive from the American hardboiled tradition and the American film noir style of the
1940s. They ....
(2286
9
)
Gangster Film Genre
.... This psychological focus lent itself particularly well to the "film noir" style which was present in gangster
films of the late
1940s. ....
(2749
11
)
The Gangster Film
.... This psychological focus lent itself particularly well to the "film noir" style which was present in gangster
films of the late
1940s. ....
(2749
11
)
War Movies
.... While these contemporary
films are far more extreme in their graphic depictions of war violence than those of the
1940s and 1950s, they have been more widely ....
(747
3
)
Mildred Pierce and Psychology
.... The Los Angeles that is depicted in this film (and in many
films of the
1940s and 1950s) is a liminal place, neither fish nor flesh nor good red herring. ....
(1215
5
)
Sexual Politics in Three Science Fiction Films
.... This is clearly true of all three
films discussed here--Star Wars is openly related to the movie serials of the
1940s; Starman is most closely related to the ....
(3355
13
)
Social Commentary of Preston Sturges' Comedies
He directed the majority of his
films in the
1940s, and at that time he had to work under the strictures of the Motion Picture Code which determined what could ....
(3012
12
)
Preston Sturges Preston Sturges was known as a dir
He directed the majority of his
films in the
1940s, and at that time he had to work under the strictures of the Motion Picture Code which determined what could ....
(2992
12
)
Max and Dave Fleischer Max and Dave Fleischer started in
.... to last into the
1940s, continuing beyond studios like Van Buren or Ub Iwerks (though Iwerks did return to the Disney fold and work on animated
films after his ....
(2494
10
)
