Blonde as they come. Phylis's fair skin contrasts with her dark soul and racialized ethnic proclivities. She comes to embody the blackened postwar femme fatale. Amid the sexual upheavals and the expansion of unsupervised sexuality in American cities during and after the war, Americans witnessed what they saw as unsteady amalgam of urban sexuality.
excerpt from
Noiring LA ; Double Indemnity, Black Dahlia, and the Fears of Postwar America
Ryan Reft
Sept 2013
reblogged via www.kcet.org
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Double Indemnity
1944
https://www.kcet.org/history-society/noiring-la-double-indemnity-black-dahlia-and-the-fears-of-postwar-america
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