Nightmare Alley - Film Noir And The American Dream (65 page)

No Man of Her Own
,
48
,
60
–65,
267
–68nn11–20

Out of the Past
,
5
,
48
,
54
–58,
77
,
266
n26,
267
nn4–5

Street of Chance
,
48
–50,
271
n22

syndicate films,
288
–89n32

Talman, William,
145
,
146
,
289
n38

technology,
2
,
100
,
147
,
150
,
153

Telotte, J. P.,
65
–66,
69
,
240

therapeutic ethos,
2
,
5
,
6
,
22
–23,
249
,
See also
psychoanalysis

therapy,
5
,
22
,
157
,
206
–7,
284
n39

They Live by Night
,
136
–39,
158

Thieves’ Highway
,
220
,
227
–28,
287
nn17–19

Thieves’ Market
(Bezzerides),
227

Tierney, Gene,
109
,
112

Together Again
,
196

Toland, Gregg,
82

Tourneur, Jacques,
54

trauma,
26
,
44
,
78
,
79
,
97
–98,
100

in dreams,
26
,
42
–43,
44

and flashbacks,
80

and memory,
87
,
98
,
261

and reenactments,
88
,
102

and reinvention,
93
.
See also
posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)

Trigo, Benigno,
14
,
264
n2

Trojan horses,
16
,
135
,
148
,
149
,
151

Truesdell, June,
202
,
203
,
282
nn26–27,
283
nn32–33

Trumbo, Dalton,
17
,
220
,
285
–86n3,
286
n6

blacklisting of,
223
,
244

and
Gun Crazy
,
141
,
276
n9

and Hollywood Ten,
221
,
276
n9,
286
n7

and
The Prowler
,
221
,
255
,
256

truth,
77
,
98
,
119
,
130
,
272
n26

Try and Get Me!
,
221
,
239
–40,
250
–55,
291
nn2–4

and censors,
254
,
291
n4

Tucker’s People
(Wolfert),
234

Turney, Catherine,
188
–89,
267
–68n11

and
The Man I Love
,
61
,
180
,
268
n12,
268
n16

and
No Man of Her Own
,
58
,
61
,
64

Two Mrs. Carrolls, The
,
272
–73n1

Ulmer, Edgar G.,
25
,
142
,
265
n12,
277
n14

Underworld Story, The
,
221
,
245
–47,
249
,
290
nn49–50

and censors,
290
n46,
290
n50

United States v. Paramount
,
14
,
223

upward mobility,
2
,
4
,
5
,
11
,
60
,
144
,
249

and American Dream,
10
,
63
,
231
,
259

automobility and,
142
,
261

convertibles as emblem of,
275
n4

crime and,
63
,
220
–21,
259

jazz and,
155
,
171

Van Upp, Virginia,
191
,
192
–93,
196
–97,
215

Vaughan, Benjamin,
2

verticality,
55
,
272
n27,
287
n22

Veteran Comes Back, The
(Waller),
80
–81

veterans: emotional bonds of,
78
,
82

readjustment by,
80
–86

reintegration of,
80
,
105
.
See also
disabled veterans

vet noir,
77
–105,
107
,
168
,
270
n5

on American Dream,
93
,
97
,
100

amnesia in,
77
,
78
–79,
88
,
92
,
93
–96,
97
,
99
,
100
,
104

flashbacks in,
80
,
82
,
83

identity in,
77
,
78
,
82
,
89
,
96
,
97

optimism in,
249
,
261

PTSD in,
79
,
82
,
85
–86,
88
,
89
,
90
,
98

on reenactment,
88
,
99
,
102
,
103
–4

restitution and revenge in,
86
–92

on self-reinvention,
79
,
91
–92,
95
,
97
,
101
,
105
,
142

violence in,
103
,
105

vet noir films:
Act of Violence
,
78
–79,
97
,
100
–104,
187
,
272
nn30–31

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

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

Cornered
,
78
,
86
–87,
271
nn15–17,
285
–86n3

The Crooked Way
,
78
,
95
–97

Crossfire
,
84
–86,
270
–71nn12–14

Dead Reckoning
,
88
–90

Ride the Pink Horse
,
77
,
88
,
90
–92,
191
,
271
nn19–21

Somewhere in the Night
,
78
,
79
,
92
,
93
–95,
97
,
271
–72n23

Vicki
,
115
–16,
274
n13

Vidor, Charles,
194
,
264
n1

violence,
11
,
28
,
53
,
58
,
84
,
85

jazz and,
154
,
155
,
161
,
165
,
168

vet noir films and,
103
,
105

vision motif,
27
,
29

Vogel, Paul,
272
n27

Wagner, Dave,
224
,
233
,
290
n47

Wald, Jerry,
188
,
197
,
207
,
281
n19

Wald, Malvin,
215
,
285
n50,
287
n16

Waldman, Diane,
274
n23

Waldorf Statement,
223

Walker, Gertrude,
188
,
197
,
281
n18

Wallace, Henry,
224
,
286
n11

Waller, Willard,
80
–81,
270
n8

Wallis, Hal,
199

Walsh, Raoul,
179
,
180

Wanger, Walter,
121
–22

Warner Bros.,
188
,
207
,
280
n10

Warwick, James,
264
n1

Waxman, Philip,
265
n14

Webb, Clifton,
109
,
114

Weidman, Jerome,
197

West, Nancy,
72
,
73
,
74
,
269
n26

Wexley, John,
271
n17

White Heat
,
148
–49,
187

Whorf, Richard,
156
,
277
n5

Wieder, Robert,
275
n4

Wild Calendar
(Block),
211
,
284
n46

Wilde, Cornel,
137
,
175
,
182
,
183

Wilder, Billy,
13
,
49
,
132
,
254

Williams, Tony,
6
,
29

Wilson, Teddy,
156

Wise, Robert,
172
,
278
–79nn26–27,
288
n27

Wolfert, Ira,
234

Wolff, Maritta,
180

Wollheim, Richard,
23

Woman in the Window, The
,
36
,
106
,
116
–19,
266
n19,
274
nn14–18

“woman’s film,”
187
,
280
n3

women,
17
,
89
,
103
,
112
,
165
,
185
,
199
,
217
,
280
n1

and agency,
197
,
199
,
280
n10

attribution of evil to,
83
–84,
195

career,
196
,
216

commodification of,
170
,
199

and domesticity,
186
,
188
,
190

and identity,
58
–59,
115

and marriage,
59
,
60
,
186
–87,
191
,
193
,
195
,
196
,
203
,
217

and money,
62
,
193

and motherhood,
17
,
149
,
186
,
187
–88,
191
,
214

as nightclub singers,
179
–80,
279
n35

as prisoners,
207
–10

and sexuality,
169
,
197
,
199
,
201
,
203
,
214
,
217

working,
11
,
17
,
186
,
189
–91,
280
n2.
See also
femme noir; gender roles

women filmmakers,
17
,
185
,
218
–19,
261

as producers,
191
–92

as screenwriters,
58
,
180
,
187
,
188
,
192
,
214

women’s portraits.
See
portraiture films

Woolrich, Cornell,
11
,
49
,
159
,
165
,
277
n10

The Black Path of Fear
,
31

I Married a Dead Man
,
61
,
62
,
64
,
268
n13,
268
n17

World War II,
4
,
5
,
11
,
20
,
267
n10

writing,
39
,
63

Wyler, William,
77
,
222
–23,
270
n7

Young, Collier: and Lupino,
214
,
215
,
218
,
285
n52

screenplays by,
145
,
211
,
272
n30

You Only Live Once
,
136

Zanuck, Darryl F.,
9
,
109
,
228
,
273
nn8–9

Zeitgeist theory,
12
,
264
n11

Zinnemann, Fred,
97
,
102
,
103
,
272
n30

Žižek, Slavoj,
118
–19