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The author examines censorship in Hollywood and the development of Film noir. Topics include motion picture industry, film marketing, and culture changes.

During World War II, as the American men departed for military duty overseas, millions of women took up jobs working in factories and film industry to aid war-related production in support of the war effort. The war also benefited female creative talent behind-the-scenes in production opportunities.

This article investigates British writer Andrew Davies' media adaptations of Jane Austen from BBC's Pride and Prejudice (1995) to Sense and Sensibility (2008) and examines how their gendered cinematic landscapes, sexual polemics, location shooting, and production history reframe feminist concerns, societal and class constraints, and complex issues of masculinity and gender bending sexual identity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article analyses the director Joseph H. Lewis' films noir and the changing noir vision of American culture from gothic heroines to Cold War gangsters. Topics include shift of Lewis films from gothic thrillers to crime-fighting masculine gangster films in the postwar era, My Name is Julia Ross's depiction of the condition of the working women seeking jobs once again after the war, and Lewis' use of gothic horror conventions amplifying gender distress and emphasizing misogynism.