FLM 171 Film Noir and the City

An analysis of the Hollywood crime dramas characteristic of the 1940s and 1950s that featured cops, crimes, gangsters and femme fatales. The social context that reflected darker times of the depression, the tension of the world war, urban sophistication, and the fight against evil will be explored as expressed and symbolized in this film genre. GE 5B.

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