Post‑War Westerns: The Moral Turn (with John Sanders)

Post‑War Westerns: The Moral Turn (with John ...

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Postwar Domestic Melodrama: The Home as a System of Control (with Patricia White)

Hollywood's domestic melodramas of the late 1940s and 1950s have often been dismissed as weepy entertainments—but film scholar Patricia White makes a compelling case that filmmakers like Douglas Sirk, Vincente Minnelli, and Nicholas Ray were doing something far more pointed. Andy ...  Show more

Film Noir: Crime and the Ordinary Man (with Foster Hirsch)

Film noir didn't emerge from postwar prosperity—it was born during the war itself, carrying the anxiety of a culture already in dislocation. Andy and film historian and Professor of Film at Brooklyn College Foster Hirsch move chronologically through ten essential noirs, tracing h ...  Show more

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