Noir Part 1: Socialism in One Genre: Wildcat Strikers, Fugitive Outsiders, and a Savage Lament
Noir Part 1: Socialism in One Genre: Wildcat Strikers, Fugitive Outsiders, and a Savage Lament
This chapter examines film noir in the U.S. during the post-war years from 1945 to 1950. It traces the emergence of the so-called wildcat strikers and fugitive outsiders in Hollywood films and its parallels with working-class consciousness heightened by a series of strikes. The chapter describes the film depiction of a multitude of subworking-class, working-class, and middle-class male and female fugitives forced to flee the law, which ultimately exposes the real criminal as the upper- or business-class foe who torments them.
Keywords: film noir, fugitive outsiders, U.S, Hollywood films, strikes
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