Claire Trevor: Queen of the Bs and Hollywood Film Noir

By Carolyn McGivern

McGivern investigates Trevor's many screen representations in detail, often focusing on contemporary dominant historically specific concepts of American society and culture that gave rise to the Western and Film Noir. She delves deep into the life and image of Claire Trevor, looking at how her starring roles often seemed to reflect the tensions, paradoxes and contradictions of a bleak and uncertain future for many Americans who existed in a period of unprecedented national power and prosperity.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1980635501
• ISBN13: 9781980635505
• Release Date: March 2018
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 153 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.4" x 6.0"