- Description
- 1 online resource (viii, 324 p.) : ill.
- Uniform Title
- Nightmare alley (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Nightmare alley (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- 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.
- LCCN
- 2012017652
- OCLC
- ssj0000803670
- Author
Osteen, Mark.
- Title
Nightmare alley [electronic resource] : film noir and the American dream / Mark Osteen.
- Imprint
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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