Power and Paranoia : History, Narrative, and the American Cinema, 1940{u2013}1950

A post-structural analysis of Hollywood films from the 1940s, with a particular focus on those meant to inspire the Allied forces during World War II. Contents Acknowledgments A Note on the Films Introduction 1. Writing the Space of the Forties 2. Wartime Unity: The Representation of Institutions and the Institutions of Representation 3. Narrative limits: The Fiction of War and the War of Fictions 4. Knowledge and Human Interests: Science, Cinema, and the Secularization of Horror 5. Blind Insights and Dark Passages: The Problem of Placement 6. Beyond Narrative: The Space and Spectacle of the Forties Notes Name and Subject Index Film Index