Nightmare alley
Osteen, Mark.
Nightmare alley film noir and the American dream / [electronic resource] : Mark Osteen. - Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013. - viii, 324 p. : ill.
Includes bibliographical references and index. Filmography: p. [293]-296.
Introduction: film noir and the American dream -- "Someone else's nightmare": exploring noir dreamscapes -- Missing persons: self-erasure and reinvention -- Vet noir: masculinity, memory and trauma -- Framed: forging noir identities -- Noir's cars: automobility and amoral space -- Nocturnes in black and blue: memory, morality and jazz melody -- Femmes vital: film noir and women's work -- Left-handed endeavor: crime, capitalism, and the Hollywood left -- Conclusion: American nightmares.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Film noir--History and criticism.--United States
Motion pictures--Social aspects--History--United States--20th century.
American Dream in art.
National characteristics, American, in motion pictures.
Electronic books.
PN1995.9.F54 / O88 2013
791.43/6556
Nightmare alley film noir and the American dream / [electronic resource] : Mark Osteen. - Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013. - viii, 324 p. : ill.
Includes bibliographical references and index. Filmography: p. [293]-296.
Introduction: film noir and the American dream -- "Someone else's nightmare": exploring noir dreamscapes -- Missing persons: self-erasure and reinvention -- Vet noir: masculinity, memory and trauma -- Framed: forging noir identities -- Noir's cars: automobility and amoral space -- Nocturnes in black and blue: memory, morality and jazz melody -- Femmes vital: film noir and women's work -- Left-handed endeavor: crime, capitalism, and the Hollywood left -- Conclusion: American nightmares.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Film noir--History and criticism.--United States
Motion pictures--Social aspects--History--United States--20th century.
American Dream in art.
National characteristics, American, in motion pictures.
Electronic books.
PN1995.9.F54 / O88 2013
791.43/6556