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Nightmare alley

Osteen, Mark.

Nightmare alley film noir and the American dream / [electronic resource] : Mark Osteen. - Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013. - 1 online resource (336 p.)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

9781421408323 1421408325


National characteristics, American, in motion pictures.
American Dream in art.
Motion pictures--Social aspects--History--United States--20th century.
Film noir--History and criticism.--United States


Electronic books.

PN1995.9.F54 / O88 2013

791.43/6556