Draft Punk

I present to you, my new artistic jam: Dieselpunk.

Unlike Steampunk (which I also adore, but found it never quite fit into my favorite fashion, design and architecture and historical eras, to be honest), Dieselpunk eschews the high morality and sometimes thin veneer of propriety and emphasis on class status of the Victorians in favor of the post-and-pre-World War timeframes. A time of political upheaval and tilting moral compasses, we have a much more urbanized and industrial feel in Dieselpunk - think chessecake, noir, fedoras & trenchcoats, sleek, powerful cars spewing fumes into the night, pencil skirts and wiggle dresses. Breathy-voiced secretaries. Dashing Lady Pilots. Men of action. Nefarious villains in high rise offices made of steel and glass. Super villains in underground bunkers. It's all a post-modern utopia of dystopian proportions.

From Wiki:

Dieselpunk is based on the aesthetics of the interwar period between the end of the World War I and the beginning of World War II. This sub-genre is sometimes named Decopunk, referring to the Art Deco art style (including its Streamline Modernevariant). The genre combines the artistic and genre influences of the period (including pulp magazines, serial films, film noir, art deco, and wartime pin-ups) with postmodern technology and sensibilities. First coined in 2001 as a marketing term by game designer Lewis Pollak to describe his role-playing game Children of the Sun,^[11][12] dieselpunk has grown to describe a distinct style of visual art, music, motion pictures, fiction, and engineering. Examples include Rocketeer, Crimson Skies,Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, Dark City, Greed Corp, Gatling Gears, Iron Sky, the BioShock series, K-20: Legend of the Mask and Skullgirls.^[13]

From Tropes:

A Punk Punk genre of Speculative Fiction based on the 1920s - 1950s period, spiced up with retro-futuristic innovations and occult elements. The dieselpunk narrative is characterized by conflict vs the undefeatable (nature, society, cosmic), strong use of technology, and Grey and Gray Morality. The protagonists are often Heroic Neutral and have low social status.

Generally, dieselpunk can take inspiration from 1920s German Expressionist films, Film Noir, 1930s Pulp Magazines and Radio Dramas, Crime and wartime comics, period propaganda films and newsreels, wartime pinups, and other entertainment of the early 20th century. As this covers a broad spectrum, the precise sources of inspiration can vary greatly between dieselpunk works. Like Steam Punk, Dieselpunk is a genre dictated primarily by its aesthetics rather than by its thematic content. Both grime and glamour have their place in dieselpunk.

Dieselpunk overlaps with Two Fisted Tales and Raygun Gothic, but differs mostly in its Punk Punk theme. Two Fisted Tales explore settings such as Heroic Fantasy, Space Opera, etc that are not properly a part of Dieselpunk, and Raygun Gothic tends to describe a period both chronologically and technologically later. Typically, Dieselpunk roots itself in urban and wartime settings of the 1920s to the late 1940s, both literally and figuratively 'down to earth'.

A common point of divergence from our timeline is that The Great Depression never happened, leading to further economic and technological growth and less of the warmongering typical of the inter-war era. World War II may still happen in some Dieselpunk settings...