RT Article
T1 Class, Crime, and Film Noir: Labor, the Fugitive Outsider, and the Anti-Authoritarian Tradition
JF Social justice
VO 30
IS 1
SP 22
OP 41
A1 Broe, Dennis
LA English
YR 2003
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/174715864X
AB Part of a special issue on race, security, and social activism in the U.S. The role of the film noir genre in validating ordinary citizens who got on the wrong side of the law is explored. The success of the genre's films in gaining sympathy for their characters, the sympathetic fugitives who were protagonists against social and corporate authority, is discussed.
K1 Motion pictures -- Social aspects
K1 Mystery films
K1 Film noir
K1 Police in motion pictures
K1 Marxist criticism
K1 Crime in motion pictures