2 options
Nightmare alley : film noir and the American dream / Mark Osteen.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Osteen, Mark.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Film noir--United States--History and criticism.
- Film noir.
- Motion pictures--Social aspects--United States--History--20th century.
- Motion pictures.
- American Dream in art.
- National characteristics, American, in motion pictures.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (337 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This provocative and wide-ranging study revises and refreshes our understanding of noir's characters, themes, and cultural significance.
- 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:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Filmography: p. [293]-296.
- ISBN:
- 1-4214-0832-5
- OCLC:
- 835910081
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.