Film Noir Fate Vs The Working Stiff

<p>In his film noir second volume Bernie Dowling reviews films about ordinary jobs in a greedy crime-ridden society. <em>Fate Vs The Working Stiff </em>explores an ignored noir sub-genre in five pictorial essays and hundreds of photos.</p><p><br></p><p>The 2023 extended Hollywood actors' and writers' strike challenged the invasion of AI into their workplace.</p><p><br></p><p>Noir writer Philip Yordan used pattern recognition the basic principle of AI from the 1940s a decade before the first academic book on the subject. So have the ethical conundrums of AI already been a part of Hollywood since its Golden Age? The intriguing Yordan also appropriated the works of other writers and received an Academy Award for nothing.</p><p><br></p><p>With humor cultural analysis and a passion for film noir Dowling investigates the representation of the working class during the aftermath of economic depression and war.</p><p><br></p><p>The dark undercurrents of Hollywood at work are fascinating on and off the screens.</p>