Nightmare alley [electronic resource] : film noir and the American dream / Mark Osteen.
2013Description: viii, 324 p. : illISBN:- 9781421407807 (hardback : alk. paper)
- 1421407809 (hardback : alk. paper)
- 9781421408323 (e-book)
- 791.43/6556 23
- PN1995.9.F54 O88 2013eb
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Filmography: p. [293]-296.
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.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.