Abstract

Niagara features a landscape or "place" as a star. Focusing especially on Niagara Falls' multilayered and traumatic history helps us understand the film's exploration of mental instability, eroticism, death, and even the ongoing Korean War. Yet the film's conventional plot structure is unable to resolve its gender, class, and other tensions, which reflect the fissures of midcentury America.

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