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Nightmare alley : film noir and the American dream / Mark Osteen.
Van Pelt Library PN1995.9.F54 O88 2013
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Osteen, Mark.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Film noir--United States--History and criticism.
- Film noir.
- Motion pictures--Social aspects.
- History.
- United States.
- Motion pictures--Social aspects--United States--History--20th century.
- Motion pictures.
- American Dream in art.
- National characteristics, American, in motion pictures.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 324 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781421407807
- 9781421408323
- 1421407809
- 1421408325
- OCLC:
- 793379317
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