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A REVIEW OF CONTEMPORARY MEDIA

1. Dixon, Wheeler Winston, ed. American Cinema of the 1940s: Themes and Variations. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2006. [return to essay]

2. Stewart’s roles in later films such as Calling Northside 777 (1948), Rope (1948) and, ultimately Vertigo (1958) will complete the postwar sea change.

3. Schatz, Thomas. Boom and Bust: American Cinema in the 1940s. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1999.