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American Film Industry: Anxieties Of The Great Depression

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Film noir came into the public gaze in the post-war 1940’s. The American film industry continued to make and produce films during World War II and because the German’s where occupying France, they stopped all American films from being screened in the French theaters. When World War II had ended and the Nazi regime had collapsed in 1945 the France audience where greeted with a back log of American films. American films that reflected the anxieties of the American nation at that time and of the years that came before. Anxieties of the Great Depression that had taken place just two decades ago and the effects that the wars where having on the country. The French audiences where shocked with what they saw at their theatres. These new American

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