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  • A Hello to Arms

    A Harry Palmer LA Mystery, #1

    by Dennis Broe ...
    Series Book 1 - A Harry Palmer LA Mystery
    A Hello To ArmsSemi-corruptible ex-LAPD cop Harry Palmer is hired by an African-American defense industry worker who claims he was a victim of workplace contaminants. He needs Harry's help to get his pension from an airline industry which may or may not be going bankrupt. Harry is also asked to plug a leak in the Henry Wallace presidential campaign which is sabotaging its efforts to get off the ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Diary of a Digital Plague Year: Corona Culture, Serial TV and The Rise of The Streaming Services

    by Dennis Broe ...
    Diary of a Digital Plague Year: Corona Culture, Serial TV and The Rise of The Streaming Services"With his latest masterwork, Dennis Broe confirms what some of us already knew: when it comes to parsing and interrogating popular culture, he has no peer."-- Gerald Horne, author, Paul Robeson: The Artist as Revolutionary"Broe's mastery of history, economics, and media let him provide details and ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Precinct With The Golden Arm

    by Dennis Broe ...
    Calamitous Corruption: The Harry Palmer LA TrilogyBook 3: The Precinct With The Golden Arm"A superbly plotted, Chandleresque historical Noir"–Lilja Sigurðardóttir, "the Queen of Scandinavian Crime Fiction," author of the trilogy Snare, Trap, Cage and of four financial thrillers, the latest of which is Dark As Night"Private detective Harry Palmer, a distant relative of Philip Marlow and Lew Archer, ... Read more

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  • Birth of the Binge

    Serial Tv and the End of Leisure

    by Dennis Broe ...
    Series series Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media
    A deep-dive into the practice and execution of contemporary television viewing.Birth of the Binge: Serial TV and the End of Leisure describes and details serial television and "binge watching," the exceedingly popular form of contemporary television viewing that has come to dominance over the past decade. Author Dennis Broe looks at this practice of media consumption by suggesting that the history ... Read more

    $24.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Maverick

    by Dennis Broe ...
    Series series TV Milestones
    Demonstrates how Maverick, "The Legend of the West," fractured, altered, or undermined nearly every Western code and myth.Airing on ABC from 1957 to 1962, Maverick appeared at a key moment in television Western history and provided a distinct alternative to the genre's usual moralistic lawmen in its hero, Bret Maverick. A non-violent gambler and part-time con man, Maverick's principles revolved ... Read more

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  • Cold War Expressionism: Perverting the Politics of Perception/Bombast, Blacklists and Blockades in the Postwar Art World

    by Dennis Broe ...
    Cold War Expressionism is an expose of the art world after World War II where a new triumphalism and a growing conservatism on the part of the US helped bring to power a depoliticized art which went under the rubric of Abstract Expressionism and which functioned as an advertisement for American capitalism while erasing the social impulses of prior European Modernisms and the American Social ... Read more

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  • Left of Eden

    A Harry Palmer LA Mystery, #2

    by Dennis Broe ...
    Series Book 2 - A Harry Palmer LA Mystery
    "Dennis Broe, a renowned scholar of film noir, has written his own hard-boiled noir masterpiece, sprinkled with murder, blackmail, and sexual intrigue"—Peter Kuznick, co-author with Oliver Stone of The Untold History of the United States"A terse mash-up of hard-boiled prose and good old-fashioned historical research" --Jon Lewis, author of Hard-Boiled Hollywood: Crime and Punishment in Postwar Los ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Dark Ages

    A Harry Palmer/Crystal Eckart Mystery, #5

    by Dennis Broe ...
    Series Book 5 - A Harry Palmer/Crystal Eckart Mystery
    "A good read with plenty of twists and turns" "Jake Gittes eat your heart out"Harry and Crystal in their deadliest adventure yet."Dennis Broe has done it again. On the one hand, we have his usual electrifying prose, dense atmospheric feel for LA, and sharp plotting. On the other, we have the sneaking sense that the backdrop of the 1950s Hollywood blacklist is becoming our own backdrop. Today. ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The House That Buff Built

    A Harry Palmer/Crystal Eckart Mystery, #4

    by dennis broe ...
    Series Book 4 - A Harry Palmer/Crystal Eckart Mystery
    "A Chinese American woman fears for her life in her first night in in the house she's bought in an all-white suburb. The only one who'll help her kung-fu Maoist daughter protect her is a low-rent private dick, Harry Palmer. Dennis Broe's newest meta-noir drops his shamus into the corruption and racism of 1950's L.A. real estate. It's a heady trip among a galaxy of career lowlifes with ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Pornocopia

    by Dennis Broe ...
    Harry and Crystal in their most dangerous--and sexiest--adventure yet"Harry Palmer's latest Odyssey through the noir underbelly of LA takes him into a hell of mirrors; the intricately plotted narrative traps him among a pornography industry that mimics Hollywood; an FBI that reflects the Chicago mobs; and US attempts to crush Iranian democracy. Never has a hard-boiled dick hallucinated so ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Dark Ages

    by dennis broe ...
    Harrry and Crystal caught in the middle of the McCarthy Hearings"Dennis Broe has done it again. On the one hand, we have his usual electrifying prose, dense atmospheric feel for LA, and sharp plotting. On the other, we have the sneaking sense that the backdrop of the 1950s Hollywood blacklist is becoming our own backdrop"-Toby Miller, author of Why Journalism? A Polemic."Broe's novel, written in ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Film Noir, American Workers, and Postwar Hollywood

    by Dennis Broe ...
    Series series Working in the Americas
    Film noir, which flourished in 1940s and 50s, reflected the struggles and sentiments of postwar America. Dennis Broe contends that the genre, with its emphasis on dark subject matter, paralleled the class conflict in labor and union movements that dominated the period.By following the evolution of film noir during the years following World War II, Broe illustrates how the noir figure represents ... Read more

    $12.39 USD