Nightmare Alley - Film Noir And The American Dream (59 page)

as heist film,
239
,
240
,
289
n38

atomic bomb,
12
,
151
,
161

authenticity,
4
–5,
107
,
179
,
220
–21

authorship: cinematic,
17
,
106
,
119
,
185
,
215
–16,
218

and forgery,
122

and identity,
120
,
124

automobiles,
16
,
132
–53,
275
n2

and American Dream,
134
,
152

as amoral space,
16
,
133
,
135
,
137
,
148
,
150
,
152
,
199

and autonomy,
134
,
143
,
151

and commodification,
133
,
134
,
135
,
142
,
150

criminals and,
135
,
136
,
146
,
148
,
149

as domestic space,
133
,
135
,
136
–37,
139
,
148

and freedom,
16
,
132
,
135
,
136
,
148

and guns,
140
–41,
145
,
147

and identity,
133
,
134
,
135
,
137

loss of,
135
,
145

and masculinity,
147

and mobility,
16
,
139
,
142
,
143
,
144

in postwar period,
133
–34,
135
,
152

and risk,
135
,
145
,
147

and roadside restaurants,
143
,
275
n3

and sexuality,
135
,
137
,
140

and sovereignty,
143
,
145

as Trojan horse,
16
,
135
,
148
,
149
,
151

used,
139
,
142
–43,
275
n6.
See also
convertibles; hitchhikers; hitchhiking films; lam films

automobility,
133
,
135
,
147
,
152

and criminality,
136

and mobility,
16
,
134
,
142
,
261

autonomy,
99
,
148
,
181
,
183

automobiles and,
134
,
143
,
151

Babener, Liahna,
111
,
112
,
273
n4,
273
n8

Bacall, Lauren,
65
,
68

Balkun, Mary McAleer,
5

Barnes, George,
234

Barrymore, John, Jr.,
28
,
265
n15

Basinger, Jeanine,
191

Baudry, Jean-Louis,
21

Beaumont, Hugh,
83
,
281

bebop,
158
,
276
n1,
277
n7

Belafonte, Harry,
172
,
173
,
278
nn24–25

Bel Geddes, Barbara,
211
,
284
n44

Belton, John,
4
,
93

Bennett, Bruce,
179
,
189

Bennett, Joan,
70
,
106
,
117
,
121
–22

Benson, Sally,
48
,
188
,
267
–68n11

and
No Man of Her Own
,
61
,
64
,
268
n12,
268
nn15–16,
268
n18

Bernhardt, Curtis,
97
,
100
,
205
,
272
n27,
272
n29

Bernstein, Elmer,
176
–77,
279
n32

Berry, John,
211
,
284
n42

Bessie, Alvah,
286
n7

Be Still, My Love
(Truesdell),
202
,
203
,
282
nn26–27,
283
nn32–33

Best Years of Our Lives, The
,
13
,
77
,
81
–82,
270
n1,
287
n20

betrayal,
53
,
88
,
170
,
239

and blacklist era,
221
,
240
–41

and secrets,
229
,
237

Beverly, William,
135

Bezzerides, A. I.,
227

Biberman, Herbert,
285
–866n3,
286
n7

Biesen, Sheri Chinen,
112
,
189
,
273
n8

Bigamist, The
,
147
,
215
,
216
–18,
285
nn51–55

Big Combo, The
,
77
,
174
–76

Big Heat, The
,
187

Big Night, The
,
28
–30,
44
,
265
nn13–18

Black Angel
,
165
–67,
278
n17

blacklist,
17
–18,
221
,
228
,
240
,
247
,
286
n13

fight against,
244
–45

onset of,
223
–24

red noir films on,
245
–47,
255

studio heads and,
223
,
247

testifying and informing during,
223
,
290
nn43–44

use of “fronts” during,
223
,
224
,
255
.
See also
red scare and witch hunt

blackness,
184

jazz and,
16
,
154
,
155
,
160
,
161
,
166
,
178
,
180

Black Path of Fear, The
(Woolrich),
31

Blankfort, Henry,
290
n45

Blind Alley
,
264
n1

Block, Libbie,
211
,
284
n46

Blue Dahlia, The
,
78
,
82
–84,
270
nn9–11

Blue Gardenia, The
,
168
–70

Blues in the Night
,
156
–58,
277
nn5–6

blues music,
156
–58,
160
,
167
,
177
,
179
,
182

blues philosophy,
173

“Body and Soul” (song),
181
,
233

Body and Soul
,
5
,
220
,
231
–34,
249
,
288
nn24–30

Boehm, Sydney,
97

Bogart, Humphrey,
65
,
67
,
68
,
88
,
268
–69n22

and Hollywood Ten,
222
–23

Bolton, Muriel Roy,
58
,
188
,
267
n8

Bond, Anson,
214

Boone, Richard,
115

boxing,
231
–33,
288
n27

Brackett, Leigh,
188

Brandell, Jerrold,
42

Brecht, Bertolt,
286
n7

Bredell, Woody,
51

Breen, Joseph,
254
,
256
,
284
n40,
285
n49

Breen, Richard,
277
n7

Breen Office.
See
censors

Brick Foxhole, The
(Brooks),
84
,
270
n12

Bridges, Lloyd,
250
,
255

Brill, Lesley,
43
,
266
n26

Britton, Andrew,
276
n13

Brodie, Steve,
54
,
85
,
139

Broe, Dennis,
139
,
225
,
230
,
264
n10,
286
n10,
287
n22

Brook, Vincent,
264
n7,
277
nn5–6

Brooks, Richard,
84
,
270
n12

Browder, Earl,
224
,
286
n11

Brown, Royal,
273
n5

Brute Force
,
225
–26,
287
n15

Buhle, Paul,
220
,
224
,
290
n45,
290
n47

Butler, David,
154
,
158
,
159
,
276
n1,
277
n9,
279
n29

Butler, Hugo,
255
,
265
n13

Caged
,
207
–10,
284
nn40–41

Cagney, James,
148

Cain, James M.,
11
,
133
,
188
,
286
n6

Campbell, D’Ann,
280
n2

Cantor, Paul,
142
,
277
n14

capitalism,
4
,
240
,
261

and crime,
17
,
220
,
228
,
234
–35,
240
–41,
249

Force of Evil
on,
234
–37,
249

Marx and Engels on,
227
,
235
–36

Strange Love of Martha Ivers
on,
189
,
231

Try and Get Me!
on,
250
,
291
n2

Carnovsky, Morris,
88
,
227

Carroll, Madeleine,
192

Caruth, Cathy,
79

Caspary, Vera,
112
,
273
n3,
273
n7

Cassavetes, John,
147

cathartic cure,
22
,
25
,
42

Caught
,
5
,
211
–14,
284
–85nn44–47

censors,
137
,
188

and
The Accused
,
282
–83n28

and
The Bigamist
,
218

and
Caged
,
284
n40

and
Damned Don’t Cry
,
282
n20

and
Gilda
,
199

and
No Man of Her Own
,
64
,
268
n19

and
Not Wanted
,
285
n49

and
The Prowler
,
256

and
Scarlet Street
and,
274
n20

and
Thieves’ Highway
,
287
n17

and
Try and Get Me!
,
254
,
291
n4

and
The Underworld Story
,
290
n46,
290
n50

Ceplair, Larry,
222
,
224
,
271
n17

Chamberlain, Howland,
29
,
237

Chandler, Raymond,
11
,
270
n9

Chase, The
,
31
–34,
44
,
45

chien andalou, Un
,
40

chienne, La
,
106
,
116
,
119
–22,
126
,
274
n17

children,
187
–88,
189
,
253

Chopra-Gant, Mike,
13
,
78
,
270
n11

Christopher, Nicholas,
22

class,
226
,
241
,
255

mobility between,
2
,
58
,
62

Naked City
on,
226
,
287
n16

The Strange Love of Martha Ivers
on,
220
,
228
,
230
,
287
n22

Cobb, Lee J.,
19
,
227

Cochran, Steve,
31
,
198

Cockrell, Marian,
192

Coffee, Lenore J.,
188

Cohn, Harry,
192
,
215

Cold War,
78
,
79
,
97
,
100
,
144

Cole, Lester,
97
,
285
–86n3

and Hollywood Ten,
272
n25,
286
n7

Collins, Ray,
127

Collins, Richard,
283
n38,
286
n7

Comandini, Adele,
25
,
265
n10

Committee for the First Amendment,
222
–23,
244

commodification,
228
–29,
232
,
234
,
246

of art and artist,
109
,
120
,
123

automobiles and,
133
,
134
,
135
,
142
,
150

of women,
170
,
190
,
193
,
199
,
211

Communists and communism,
12
,
176
–77n4,
286
n11

Hollywood Left and,
221
,
271
n17,
290
–91n1

community,
3
,
48
,
69
,
215
–16

complicity,
199
,
200
–201,
204

Condemned, The
(Pagano),
250

condensation,
14
,
22
,
24
–25,
43
,
264
n2,
265
n9