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Nightmare alley [electronic resource] : film noir and the American dream / Mark Osteen.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013. 2015)Description: 1 online resource (336 p.)ISBN:
  • 9781421408323
  • 1421408325
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 791.43/6556 23
LOC classification:
  • PN1995.9.F54 O88 2013
Online resources:
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.
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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.

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