Miss Barton’s Famous Cakes (2019) by Jared Hirsch and Nelson Vicens (a short film noir) – Miss Barton is famous for her cakes, but she may be perfectly capable of taking care of herself even during a stormy night.
GILGI, ONE OF US by Irmgard Keun is the story of a tough New Woman in 1920s Germany, a woman that looks life hard in the face and act with her own head and heart
Flanders, 1920. It’s a pile of gold that will make all the crew unbelievably rich. There’s enough gold for everyone in the secret WWI dugout. Or is it?
GHOSTS THROUGH THE CRACKS by Sarah Zama (Book Trailer Reveal) – A historical fantasy novella set in Chicago in the 1920s.
GHOSTS THROUGH THE CRAKCS by Sarah Zama – a 1920s novella – Even in sparkling Jazz Age Chicago, spirits can trick you into believing they’re men
The roundup of December offers a glimpse on Armistice Day 100 and Noirvember, the month-long yearly celebration of film noir. Books and history as usual
Gang Roundup lineup: Roaring Twenties, WWII, distopians stories set during that time, and the awesome trailer for a dieselpunk rendition of Shakespeare
By depicting a very specific reality, but in a stylised way, film noir went beyond its limits of time and circumstances.
World War II produced a fracture in American society. While men created their own social order at the front, women revolutionised their role at home
Veteran films betrayed a marked hostility toward (and by implication a fear of) postwar integration, the soldier’s difficulty in going back to civilian life
The femme fatale won’t renounce the advancement marriage had given her, nor the fulfilment of a relation with the hero and so a transgression is necessary
Suspense is not, of course, specific to the 1940s noir, but in these films it tends to occupy a specific place, marking the protagonist lack of control