Abstract
There’s more to the components of noir film, such as German Expressionist roots, camera angles, nihilism, no-goodniks and dysfunctional relationships, to make a genuine film noir. My research, through reading both history and biographies, and constructing timelines, reveals there is a serious, historical, and largely political, omission in the definition of the genre: propaganda. In the premiere venue of Hollywood, why did America come to overlook the obvious?
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Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
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Film, Noir, Historical Roots, Definitions, Americanism, Images
