Examines the social, political and popular culture of America in the period between VJ Day and the start of the Korean War, discussing the country's anxieties a

From one of our finest cultural historians, The Noir Forties is a vivid reexamination of America's postwar period, that "age of anxiety" characterized by the di

Using the life and career of her father, an early Hollywood actor, New Yorker writer Margaret Talbot tells the thrilling story of the rise of popular culture th

COEURS NOIRS is a collection of FILM NOIR newsprint ads from the 1940's & 1950's. Over 400 films are presented here, pulled from newspapers from all over the Un

Beginning in the mid-1940s, the bleak, brooding mood of film noir began seeping into that most optimistic of film genres, the western. Story lines took on a dar