Class, Crime and International Film Noir argues that, in its postwar, classical phase, this dark variant of the crime film was not just an American phenomenon. Rather, these seedy tales with their doomed heroes and heroines were popular all over the world including France, Britain, Italy and Japan.

Welcome to the harbour, where the fishing boats leave shore to bring in their daily catch. Have a seat and enjoy the sounds of the working fishermen, the call of the gulls and the water splashing against the quay.

A Hello To ArmsSemi-corruptible ex-LAPD cop Harry Palmer is hired by an African-American defense industry worker who claims he was a victim of workplace contaminants. He needs Harry's help to get his pension from an airline industry which may or may not be going bankrupt. Harry is also asked to plug a leak in the Henry Wallace presidential campaign which is sabotaging its efforts to get off the ground. As he follows a trail strewn with corpses and sex, confronting airline industry ...

"Dennis Broe, a renowned scholar of film noir, has written his own hard-boiled noir masterpiece, sprinkled with murder, blackmail, and sexual intrigue"—Peter Kuznick, co-author with Oliver Stone of The Untold History of the United States"A terse mash-up of hard-boiled prose and good old-fashioned historical research" --Jon Lewis, author of Hard-Boiled Hollywood: Crime and Punishment in Postwar Los Angeles"A well-written, entertaining pastiche of the Chandler/Ross Macdonald ...

Destress with nature sounds!Come on a canoeing trip. You paddle smoothly down the stream surrounded by the loveliest green scenery. Birds chirp in the trees, insects buzz, and the water splashes gently as you row along.

Welcome aboard! This soundscape follows a train journey from platform to destination. Come aboard and get comfortable in the compartment. The rhythmic hum of the train is perfect for closing your eyes and relaxing.

Imagine you are lying on a beach in the tropics. Waves are lapping gently over the fine white sand. Exotic birds chirp in the background, and you can feel the warmth of the sun's rays on your skin. You open a book to read and are served a chilled drink with ice cubes clinking satisfyingly against the glass. Every so often, music from the beach bar drifts over and the cicadas hum in the palm trees.

A deep-dive into the practice and execution of contemporary television viewing.Birth of the Binge: Serial TV and the End of Leisure describes and details serial television and "binge watching," the exceedingly popular form of contemporary television viewing that has come to dominance over the past decade. Author Dennis Broe looks at this practice of media consumption by suggesting that the history of seriality itself is a continual battleground between a m...

Harrry and Crystal caught in the middle of the McCarthy Hearings"Dennis Broe has done it again. On the one hand, we have his usual electrifying prose, dense atmospheric feel for LA, and sharp plotting. On the other, we have the sneaking sense that the backdrop of the 1950s Hollywood blacklist is becoming our own backdrop"-Toby Miller, author of Why Journalism? A Polemic."Broe's novel, written in the terse, laconic hard-boiled style of Hammett and C...

Insects buzz, birds sing, and monkeys shout to each other. The rainforest is dense with animal and plant life. Even though the animals are talking to each other, the atmosphere is totally calm. You are surrounded by a thick and warm fog, tall trees with lianas, and a springy forest floor. Here you can relax completely.

Film noir, which flourished in 1940s and 50s, reflected the struggles and sentiments of postwar America. Dennis Broe contends that the genre, with its emphasis on dark subject matter, paralleled the class conflict in labor and union movements that dominated the period.By following the evolution of film noir during the years following World War II, Broe illustrates how the noir figure represents labor as a whole. In the 1940s, both radicalized union members and protagonists of noir ...

Cold War Expressionism is an expose of the art world after World War II where a new triumphalism and a growing conservatism on the part of the US helped bring to power a depoliticized art which went under the rubric of Abstract Expressionism and which functioned as an advertisement for American capitalism while erasing the social impulses of prior European Modernisms and the American Social Expressionists of the 1930s and mid-1940s.This book details how more socially aware forms of ...