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By Mike Chopra-Gant
American tradition after the top of worldwide warfare II has been characterised by way of an abiding pessimism so much in actual fact manifested within the movie noirs of the interval. Mike Chopra-Gant demanding situations this "noir and Zeitgeist" examining and proposes that the view of yank cinema and society it develops depends on a retrospective re-imagining of the period, in accordance with the misguided promoting of chosen video clips. His lively revisionist account of the movies and tradition of the interval additionally demanding situations conventional techniques to style, to masculinity and the relatives, by way of concentrating on key issues within the hottest motion pictures when it comes to field place of work sales, together with Best Years of Our Lives, Night and Day, Scarlet Street and Gilda.
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The contradictions between these two groups of contemporary films also reveal that the pervasive impression of the early postwar period cultivated by the zeitgeist thesis is unsustainable when the artificial, critically derived generic boundaries are breached and a wider range of Hollywood’s popular postwar movies is taken into consideration. Finally, in chapter 7, I review some of the major conclusions of this study and suggest areas in which further research is needed. In the following chapter I focus on the treatment of American national identity in the big box-office successes of 1946.
So although it is class stratified, Saratoga society, with the possibilities it provides for upward class mobility, is more democratic than that of New Orleans. Saratoga Springs presents a more modern vision of a class stratified society, based on entrepreneurial or commercial success rather than outmoded notions of aristocracy, and this again reinforces its sense of American-ness. In Saratoga Springs, the Europeanization and feminization of Clint's character that threatened his masculinity in New Orleans are reversed and instead it is Clio who now begins to change.
5m. 05. 525m, still less than the combined revenues earned by the top five films in the two years immediately after the war. This rapid decline in revenues gives some sense of the sharp fall in cinema attendance from its peak in 1946. More speculatively, this fall suggests that the significance of film as a cultural form may also have declined as the decade progressed, and this supports the rationale behind the decision to confine this research to 1946 alone. 2 is that it clearly indicates that there was not a dramatic change in the generic character of the most popular films released after 1946 and that, throughout the postwar part of the forties, a similar mix of genres, dominated by musicals, comedies and romances, continued to characterize the movies that attracted the highest box-office revenues.