GENERAL INDEX
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“A” pictures. See “B” pictures
Abstract expressionism, painters of
Absurdity, themes of
Abuse, sexual. See Sexual perversity; Violence
Academy Award pictures, films noirs
Adorno, Theodor
Adults only” film showings
Advertising. See Marketing and advertising
Aesthetes, as villains
A>eck, Ben
Africa
African Americans:, in “buddy” pictures, community and neighborhood themes, as film extras, film noir depictions of, as heroes or protagonists; passing for white, in pulp fiction novels
African-American directors: films noirs by, hiphop or “gangsta” films by, types of crime movies by. See also Directors
Agee, James
Alba, Jessica
Alcoholism themes, censorship of, in literature
Aldrich, Robert
Alienation
Allen, Woody
Allied Artists (Monogram) studio
Allusions. See also Conventions, film-noir; Remakes, noir
Alonzo, John
Altman, Rick
Altman, Robert
Alton, John, Painting with Light
Ambience. See Mise-en-scène; Settings and locales, film-noir
Ambiguity: existentialist, moral and sexual, “mystery man,” public and private, surrealist
Ambler, Eric
Ameida Prado, Guilherme de
American dream, the, black comedy about. See also Capitalism; Modernity
American International Pictures
“American romance,” the
American Psycho (Ellis)
American Tragedy (Dreiser)
Amis, Martin
L’amour fou, the term
Andersen, Thom
Anderson, Brad
Andrews, Dana
Andrews, David
Anfam, David
Angel, Heather
Les années noirs
Anonymity in public
Anticommunist noir
Antifascist themes
Antigenre, film noir as an
Antiheroes. See Criminals; Heroes and protagonists; Killers
Antiheroines. See Femmes fatales; Heroines and protagonists
Anti-Semitism: of characters, Eliot’s, films against, Greene’s, of Hollywood censors. See also Racial themes in films noirs
Antisocial behaviors of noir characters. See also Criminals; Violence
Antiwar movement
Antonioni, Michaelangelo
Apocalypse, nuclear
Apparadurai, Arjun
Aragon, Louis
Ardai, Charles
Argentina, thrillers in
Arnold, Matthew
Arquette, Patricia
Art categories, dissolution of boundaries between
Art cinema, American. See also European art films
Art criticism: academic, the nature of, and politics
Art criticism, French. See French film culture
Art direction, noir. See also Props; Sets, film-noir
Art films: Asian, or neo-noir, See also European art films
Art maudit
Art theaters, urban
“Art thrillers”
Arthur, Paul
Asian Americans, films directed by
Asian themes and characters, anti-Asian propaganda images, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, orientalism
Asians, films directed by: Hong Kong films, Japanese “B” pictures
Asquith, Anthony
Assante, Armand
Assassinations: American political, hired killer
Asta (the dog)
Astaire, Fred
Astor, Mary
Attenborough, Richard
“Attraction, cinema of”
Audience reactions: to Crossfire, and picture changes, preview cards, and spectatorship, unwanted laughter
Audiences: “B” pictures for provincial, children as, for comic books, film-noir niche, “mass camp” sensibility of, middle-class white male, movies for women, past and present, popular literature for female, pulp fiction for male, shopping-mall cinema. See also Distribution systems
Auster, Paul
Austin, J. R.
Auteur, the concept of
Auteurs, politique des
“Author function”
Avant guerre period
Avant-garde, appreciation of lowbrow culture by the
Avary, Roger
Aznavour, Charles
“B” pictures, See also Thrillers
Bacall, Lauren
Badalamenti, Angelo
Baker, Joe Don
Ball, Nicholas
Ballard, J. P.
Ballard, Lucian
Bangasapan, Sananjit
Bar scenes. See Nightclub and bar scenes
Barthes, Roland
Bastel, Victoria
Baudelaire, Charles
Bazin, Andre
BBC thrillers
Beals, Jennifer
Beatings. See Violence, film noir
Begley, Ed
Belafonte, Harry
Bendix, William
Benjamin, Walter
Bergman, Ingmar
Bergson, Henri
Bernbaum, Paul
Berry, John
Bertolucci, Bernardo
Best Picture category. See Academy Award pictures
Betrayal, themes of
Bezzerides, A. I.
Bielinsky, Fabian
Biesen, Sheri Chinen
Bigelow, Kathryn
“Black cinema” (cinema noir)
Black directors. See African-American directors
Black, Lucas
The Black Curtain (Woolrich)
Black Mask journal
Black nationalism themes
Black and White and Noir (Rabinowitz)
Black-and-white film: aesthetic uses of, expressive connotations of, John Alton on, as both realistic and stylish, tonal qualities of, ubiquity of, used instead of color. See also Darkness, the central metaphor of; Lighting
Black-art devices photography
Blacklist, the: allegorical film treatments of, careers changed by, and McCarthy-era Senate investigations, social realism films by leftists on, writers and directors, . See also Censorship, motion-picture
Blackness, white dreams about
Blackout (Biesen)
Blake, Robert
“Blaxploitation” films
Blondeness
“Blood melodrama”
Blue-screen. See cinematography techniques
Boatman, Michael
Bogart, Humphrey
Bazin’s eulogy for, and In a Lonely Place, and The Maltese Falcon; as noir hero, persona of
Bogdanovich, Peter
Bogle, Thomas
Bookings. See Distribution systems
Book-of-the-Month Club
Boorman, John
Boothe, Powers
Borde, Raymond
Borden, Lizzie
Borders and boundaries: dissolution of art category, film-noir world of, with Latin America
Bordwell, David
Borges, Jorge Luis
Borzage, Frank
Bourgeois culture, opposition to
Boxing, films about
Box-office success, top moneymakers. See also Distribution systems
Boyer, Charles
Boyle, Lara Flynn
Bracho, Julio
Brackett, Leigh
Bradbury, Ray
Bradley, David
Brady, Frank
Brantlinger, Patrick
Brattle Theater (Cambridge, Mass.)
Breen, Joseph, challenge to
Breen Office, on The Blue Dahlia, on Crossfire, on Double Indemnity, objections to films noirs, report form. See also Censorship, motion-picture
Breton, André
The Brick Foxhole (Brooks), Crossfire film based on
Bridges, Lloyd
Briggs, Joe Bob (pseud.)
Brighton Rock (Greene)
British Book Society
British cinema, films by blacklisted Americans, films by women, Greene on, noir remakes, precursors of noir films
British literature: crime and spy fiction, film criticism
British TV shows
Britton, Andrew
Broadway musical revues
Brodie, Steve
Brody, Adrian
Brody, Meredith
Brookmyre, Christopher
Brooks, Louise
Brooks, Richard
Browder, Earl
Brown, Frederic
Buchan, John
Buckland, Warren
“Buddy” pictures, “A”-and “B”-movie, classic films noirs as, DTV and cable, major studio, Technicolor. See also Box-office success
Buñuel, Luis
Burch, Noel
Bureau of Motion Pictures (BMP)
Burlesques, film-noir. See also Parodies of noir
Burnett, Charles
Burnett, W. R.
Butler, Bill
Byrne, Gabriel
Caan, James
Cable noir
Cafe society. See Nightclub and bar scenes
Cafe Society (film). See Film and Broadcast Index
Cahiers du cinema journal
Cain, James M.
Career of
Cain, James M., novels by: Double Indemnity, passim, The Postman Always Rings Twice
Cain, Paul
Camp
Camus, Albert
Canerday, Natalie
Cannes Prize pictures,“Caper” movies
Capitalism, antipathy toward, indictment of, and organized crime, and postmodern entertainment. See also American dream, the; Consumerism
Carey, Philip
Carlson, Richard
Carringer, Robert
Carter, Angela
Cartoon parodies of noir
Casparay, Vera
Castle, William
Categories, the nature of, . See also Genre construction
Catholicism, and socialism
Cavalcanti, Alberto
Cawelti, John G.
CD-ROMs
Celine, Louis Ferdinand
Censorship of comics
Censorship, motion-picture, changing patterns of, by conservatives, effects on character motivation, government, local, objections to films noirs, prohibitions and rules, repressed elements, self-censorship by filmmakers, of sexuality, of violence, wartime. See also Politics in the film community
Censorship organizations. See Breen Office; PCA (Production Code Administration) censorship
Centripetal and centrifugal urban development
Chabrol, Claude
Chandler, Raymond, and The Blue Dahlia, passim; career of, and Double Indemnity, passim, novels by, parodies by, revisionist parody of, on women readers
Chapman, Matthew
Chapman, Michael
Characters. See Heroes and protagonists; Heroines and protagonists
Charisse, Cyd
Chartier, Jean-Pierre
Chase, James Hadley
Chase sequences, urban
“Chasing the Maltese Falcon: On the Fabrications of a Film Prop” (Sobchak)
Chaumeton, Etienne
Cheadle, Don
Chekmayan, Ara
Chenal, Pierre
China, in Maoist period
Chinese characters
Choice, existential
Christie, Agatha
Cimino, Michael
Cinéma noir, the term
Cinemascope
Cinematography techniques: back projection, blue-screen, camera movements historically dissonant, location shooting, long takes or temps morts, low-budget, process-screen, sequence shots, split-screen, tracking shots, traveling shots, varieties of noir, Welles’s Heart of Darkness script, . See also cinemascope; Color photography; Photography techniques
Cities, development of. See also Urban settings
Civil rights movement
Class: artistic-intellectual, black working, of blacks and whites, bourgeois, of criminals, and gender, highbrow and lowbrow art and, and homophobia, playboy; the proletariat, and racism, upper, urban, working. See also “Others”
Clément, René
Close, Glenn
Close-ups. See Photography techniques
Clothier, William H.
Clothing, noir. See Costumes, men’s; Costumes, women’s
Clouzot, Henri-Georges
Clubs, film
Coen, Joel and Ethan
A Coffin for Dimitrios (Ambler)
Cognitive theory
Cold war, the, and the McCarthy era, themes in The Manchurian Candidate. See also Blacklist, the
Coleman, Wanda
Collectibles, movie or television
Collectors and archivists
“Color line” themes
Color photography, chiaroscuro effects with, early films in, Eastmancolor, gels and filters, hot and cold, and low-level illumination, monochromatic, muted, shift from black-and-white to, passim; symbolic uses of, Technicolor,. See also cinematography techniques; Photography techniques
Color pictures: European thrillers, genre films expected to be, neo-realist, rise of
Colorization of black-and-white movies
Columbia Tri-Star
Comedy, black
Comer, Anjanette
Comfort, Madi
Comic strips and books, Entertainment Comics, graphic novels, movies based on
Commercials, noir parodies on TV
Communism: and anticommunist noir, fear of
Communist Party Writers’ Clinics
Communists Communities, minority. See “Others”; names of specific ethnic and minority groups
Concentration camp newsreels
Condon, Richard
Congress. See HUAC (House Un-American Activities Committee); Senate investigations
Connolly, Michael
Conrad, Joseph, Heart of Darkness by
Conrad, Mark T.
Conrad, William
Constantine, Eddie
Consumerism: film depictions of, and postmodern spectatorship,. See also Capitalism; Mass culture
Containment or huis-clos theme
Contract killers
Controversial films. See Censorship, motion-picture
Conventions, film-noir, as camp, ideal surrealist, varied appropriation of. See also Allusions; Visual traits of film noir
Cook, Elisha, Jr.
“Cool”
Cooper, Gary
Cooper, George
Coppola, Francis Ford
Corbett, Glenn
Corruption, themes of, among the police
Cortez, Richard
Costume pictures
Costumes, men’s: as contrast; fashion noir, military, novelists’ attention to, suit and hat, (trenchcoat and hat)
Costumes, women’s: censorship of, as contrast; fashion noir, of femmes fatales; fetishized details of; pulp-style. See also Femmes fatales
Cotten, Joseph
Coulouris, George
Coulter, Allen
Coutard, Raoul
Crawford, Joan
Credits
Creed, Barbara
Crime Illustrated (magazine)
Crime melodramas, black, “built environment” in, criminal psychology, low-budget, . See also Policier (police story)
Crime Suspenstories
Criminals: black and white, passim; films about violent, outlaw couples as, the point of view of, psychology of, social levels of, as sympathetic or authentic, on television and radio, thieves, urban, . See also Killers
Critics. See Film critics
Cronenberg, David
Cronenweter, Jordan
Cronyn, Hume
Crossing borders. See Borders and boundaries
“Crossing over”: into genre, to mainstream cinema
Crowther, Bosley
Cruelty, film noir as a theater of, . See also Sadism; Violence
Cruise, Tom Cube, Ice
Cukor, George
Cult films. See also Underground cinema, American
Cult TV shows
Cults and clubs, film
Culture. See French intellectual culture; Popular Front culture; Lowbrow culture; Mass culture; Popular culture; Postmodern culture
Cummins, Peggy
Curtis, Tony
Dall, John
Daly, Carroll John
The Dame in the Kimono (Leff and Simmons)
Dames in the Driver’s Seat (Wager)
Damon, Mark
Daniels, Bebe
Danton, Ray
Dark City, as a literary topos
The Dark Knight Returns (Miller)
Darkness, the central metaphor of: Anglo-Saxon discourse on, as despair and gloom, French fascination with, and modernism, racial implications of, . See also Lighting
da Silva, Howard
Dassin, Jules
Daves, Delmer
Davis, Bette
Davis, Eddie
Davis, Mike
Davis, Ossie
Davis, Tamra
Day, Doris
Debord, Guy
Decoin, Henri
DeLillo, Don
Del Rio, Rebekah
Del Toro, Benicio
De Palma, Brian
DeRochemont, Louis
Derrida, Jacques
De Sica, Vittorio
de Toth, André
Death. See Killers; Murder
Decorations, set. See Props; Sets, film-noir
Dehumanization
DeLanda, Manuel
Deming, Barbara
Demme, Jonathan
Democrats
Demographics, urban
DeNiro, Robert
DePalma, Brian
Depoliticalization of noir
Depression era, New Deal populism
Detective films, by black directors, Chandleresque, married-couple
Detective stories: genteel or amateur, Hammett’s modernization of American
Detective TV shows
Determinism: industrial, psychological
The Devil Thumbs a Ride (Gifford)
Dexter, Peter
Dialogue, ! Breen Office censorship of, in Double Indemnity, misogynist, postwar masculine, racist, Spanish, . See also Narration
Diawara, Manthia
Dietrich, Marlene
Digital technologies
Dimendberg, Edward
Diners, urban. See Settings and locales, film-noir
Directors: Chinese-American, European films by American, famous noir, Japanese, Left-wing American, passim; recent, women. See also African-American directors; Blacklist, the
“Director’s cut” videos
Disorientation of the spectator, surrealist
Distribution systems: for “A” and “B” pictures, for alternate film versions, cable networks, for crossover films, DTV, Hollywood studio, major studio, video-store. See also Theaters; Underground cinema, American
Dmytryk, Edward, i and Congress
Documentaries, color, photography style of
Domesticity
doppelgänger themes
Dos Passos, John
Double feature era
Douglas, Kirk
Douglas, Michael
Dr. Strangelove
Drake, Claudia
Dreams. See American dream, the; Stories and plot structures, noir
Dreiser, Theodore
Drinking scenes: censorship of, provocative. See also Alcoholism themes
“Drive-in” entertainment
Drug culture
DTVs (direct-to-video productions), major-studio imitations of
Dubois, Marie
Duff, Howard
Duhamel, Marcel
Dullea, Keir
Dunaway, Faye, passim.
Durgnat, Raymond
Duvall, Robert
Dwan, Alan
Dwyer, Marlo
Eagle-Lion Company
Eastmancolor
Eastwood, Clint
Edeson, Arthur
Edwards, Blake
Edwards, Vince
Egoyan, Atom
Eliot, T. S., anti-Semitism of, influence on Greene, The Waste Land by
Elliot, Allison
Ellipsis, use of
Ellis, Bret Easton
Ellison, Ralph
Ellroy, James
Elsaesser, Thomas
émigrés. See Exiles and émigrés
European Endfield, Cyril
Englestad, Adun
Entertainment Comics (EC)
Epitaph for a Deadbeat (Gaddis)
Epitaph for a Tramp (Gaddis)
Erdoty, Leo
Erotic thrillers
Eroticism, noir, and dream/hallucination; and masculine control, masochistic, and “mystery lighting,”; of violence. See also Pornography, themes of; Sexuality
Ethnic groups. See “Others”; names of specific ethnic and minority groups
European art films, American directors of, black-and-white, box-office success of, in color, directors of, English-language thrillers, influence on Hollywood, renaissance of
Everett, Chad
Evil: censor-required punishment of, of modernity, speech against,Evil characters. See Femmes fatales; Sadism; Villains
Exhibitors. See Distribution systems; Theaters
Exiles and émigrés, European, in Los Angeles
Existentialism, literary, influence on French film criticism
Exotic, the. See Asian themes and characters; Latin America Exploitation films, allusions to, “blaxploitation,” 216. See also Pornography, themes of
Expressionism, abstract, during interwar years, and neoexpressionism
Failure themes
“Family tree” of film noir, Durgnat’s
Far Eastern settings. See Asian themes and characters
Farber, Manny
Farrow, John
Fascism
Fashion
Fassbinder, Rainer
Fatalism, of the Left in Hollywood
Faulkner, William, Sartre on
Favorite movies: America’s all-time, the author’s early, box-office success of
Fay, Alice
Fear: of communism, of ordinary life, of women. See also Violence
Fearing, Kenneth
Felig, Arthur (“Weegee”)
Fellini, Federico
“Feminine” culture, modernist opposition to
Feminist film criticism, journals
Femmes fatales, costumes of; origins of, in twenty-first-century noir. See also Costumes, women’s; Heroines and protagonists
Fenn, Sherilyn
Fetishization: of bygone images, themes. See also Costumes, men’s; Costumes, women’s; Props
Fichtner, William
Figgis, Mike
Film critics
Film festivals, noir
Film gris, the term
Film Noir and the Spaces of Modernity (Dimendberg)
Film Noir: An Encyclopedia of the American Style (Silver and Ward)
Film Noir Reader (Silver and Ursini, eds.)
Film noir, the term
Filmographies, noir: encyclopedic, unusual inclusions in
Films and Filming journal
Films noirs, titles of. See Film and Broadcast Index
Fiorentino, Linda
First-run pictures: and “B” pictures, versus DTVs
Fishburne, Larry
Flashback narration, “lying,” i
Fletcher, Lucille
Foley, James
Ford, Ford Maddox
Ford, John (director)
Ford, John (dramatist)
Fordism. See also Mass production; Taylorism Foreign pictures. See European art films
Formulas. See Conventions, film-noir; Visual traits of film noir
Forster, Robert
Foster, Norman
Foucault, Michel
Foxx, Jamie
France, left-wing community in, postwar eras in. See also French intellectual culture
Frank, Nino
Frankenheimer, John, passim
Franklin, Carl
Frears, Stephen
Frederick’s of Hollywood
Freeling, Fritz
French cinema, Americanization of; by blacklisted Americans, Greene on
French film culture: postwar, postwar writings on film noir
French intellectual culture, existentialism in, and politics, surrealism in
Freud, Sigmund
Freudian themes
Freund, Karl
Friendship, male
Front and Center (Houseman)
Frutkoff, Gary
Fuchs, Daniel
Fujimoto, Tak
Fuller, Samuel
Furst, Anton
Fussell, Paul
Gabin, Jean
Gaddis, William
Gallagher, Peter
Gambling themes
“Gangsta” films
Gangster films
Garfield, John
Gargan, William
Garrett, Oliver H. P.
Gas chamber execution, in Double Indemnity
Gast, Michel
Gaze: of black characters, the voyeuristic
Genette, Gerard
Genre construction: antigenre and, and cognitive theory, discursive, problems, self-conscious
“Genre function”
Genres, fiction. See Detective stories; Novels, American; Pulp fiction, American
German characters, Nazi
German cinema, precursors of noir films
German expressionism
Gibson, Mel
Gibson, William
Gide, André
Gifford, Barry
Ginsberg, Henry
“Girl-Hunt Ballet,” Band Wagon The Glass Key (Hammett), films based on
Godard, Jean-Luc
Goldin, Marilyn
Goldsmith, Jerry
Goldsmith, Martin
Goodis, David
Goodwin, Betty
Gould, Elliot
Government agencies: censorship by, required respect for, . See also Censorship, motion-picture
Grahame, Gloria
Granger, Farley
Grant, Cary
The Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald)
Green, Guy
Greenberg, Joel
Greene, Graham, passim; anti-Semitism of, on childhood reading; film criticism by, Hollywood adaptations of, literary sources of, religion and politics of, screenplays by, thriller “entertainments”
Greene, Graham, novels by: Brighton Rock, The Confidential Agent, A Gun for Sale, Ministry of Fear, Stambol Train
“Greeneland”
Greenstreet, Sydney
Greenwald, Maggie
Greer, Jane: in Out of the Past
Gris, film
Group Theater
Guilt themes
Guitry, Sacha
A Gun for Sale (Greene)
Gunning, Tom
Hammett, Dashiell, passim, Asian themes in writings of, dialogue by, early films from novels by, Hammett film about, literary imitations of, as a scriptwriter, TV show from novels by, walking tour honoring, on women readers, writing and dialogue by
Hammett, Dashiell, novels by: The Glass Key, The Maltese Falcon, Red Harvest, The Thin Man
Hammond, Paul
Hannigan, William
Hanson, Curtis
Hard-boiled fiction, black people in, short stories. See also Dialogue; Toughness, literary
Hard-Boiled (Thomson and Usukawa)
Hardie, Kate
Harlan, Russell
Harring, Laura Elena
Harris, Theresa
Harron, Mary
Hartley, Hal
Hartnett, Josh
The Harvard Lampoon
Harvey, Laurence
Harvey, Sylvia
Haskell, Molly
Hass, Robert
Hawks, Howard
Hayden, Sterling
Hays, Will
Hayward, Susan
Hayworth, Rita
HBO cable network
HDTV (high-definition color TV)
Heart of Darkness (Conrad), Welles’s adaptation of
Heather, Jean
Hecht, Ben
Heflin, Van
Hegeland, Brian
Hellinger, Mark
Hellman, Lillian
Hemingway, Ernest
Hendrix, Wanda
Heroes and protagonists, criminals as, existential. See also Criminals; Detective films
Heroines and protagonists. See also Femmes fatales
Herrmann, Bernard
Higham, Charles
High modernism: cultural assimilation of, generalizations about, and socialism. See also Modernism, literary
The High Priest of California (Willeford)
Highsmith, Patricia
The High Window (Chandler)
“Hilarious homicide” pictures
Hill, Walter
Himes, Chester
History of the idea of film noir: and American politics after among American intellectuals, and Durgnat’s “family tree,” first (or historical) age of, French invention of American, as a genre, as a genre in demise, as historical artifact, as international, and its peak year of and its peri-odization, as liminal, as a mediascape, as a mood, as a named category, outside Hollywood, in Paris as a postmodern culture creation, ; as a series or cycle, and social realism, as trans-generic, as a true Hollywood genre
Hitchcock, Alfred
Hitchhiking
Hoberman, J.
Hobsbawm, Eric
Hodges, Mike
Hold Back the Dawn (Wilder)
Hollywood Committee for the First Amendment
The Hollywood nineteen
The “Hollywood Ten”
Holmes, Brown
Home-video audience, DTVs for
Hommes fatals
Homophobia, Crossfire attack on
Homosexuality: ambiguous, Breen Office prohibitions of, and male-on-male torture themes, and masculinity in film noir, and “Momism,” ; narratives, and social class, stereotypes, of victims, ; of villains
Hong Kong cinema
Hoover, J. Edgar
Hope, Bob
Hopper, Dennis
Horkheimer, Max
Horror pictures
Horvath, Alexander
Hoskins, Bob
Houseman, John
Hoveyda, Fereydoun
HUAC (House Committee on Un-American Activities), allegorical film treatments of
“Huckfinn” scenarios
Hughes, Dorothy B.
Hughes, Howard
Hugo, Chris
Humor: deadpan, in film scripts, in noir parodies, in performance, unintended
Huston, John, and The Asphalt Jungle, and the blacklist, and The Maltese Falcon
Huston, Virginia
Hutcheon, Linda
Huyssen, Andréas
Hybrid thrillers, three recent examples of
I, the Jury (Spillane)
Iconography. See Conventions, film-noir; Visual traits of film noir
Icons of Grief: Val Lewton’s Home Front Pictures (Nemerov)
Ileli, Jorge
Imagery: open road, poetic. See also cinematography techniques; Visual traits of film noir
Immigrants: European exile, working-class
Imports. See European art films
Infidelity, marital
Insurance industry: parallels with the movies, satire of
Interior decoration. See Sets, film-noir
Intermediate pictures: Gun Crazy an example of, versus “B” picture
Internet Movie Database
Interracial relationships: Asian-American, black-white, censorship of, and violence
Irony, uses of
Irwin, John T.
Isolation, themes of, and disengagement, moral solitude
Jackson, Samuel L.
Jacobs, Lea
Jacquot, Benoît
James, Henry
Jameson, Fredric
Janssen, David
Japanese characters, as sadistic enemies
Javitz, Barbara
JFK
“Jimmy Valentine” lighting. See Lighting
J’irai cracher sur vos tombes (Vian)
Johnson, Diane
Johnson, Nunnally
Johnston, Eric
Jones, Chuck
Jones, Tommy Lee
Jonquet, Thierry
Jordan, Neil
Journalism, criticism of
Journalism, tabloid
Journals, film criticism: alternative, British alternative, French surrealist. See also specific journal names
Joyce, James, Ulysses by
Kafka, Franz
Kafkaesque characters
Kaminsky, Janusz
Kantor, MacKinlay
Kaplan, E. Ann
Karas, Anton
Karloff, Boris
Karlson, Phil
Kar-Wai, Wong
Kasdan, Lawrence
Kazan, Elia
Keach, Stacy
Kefauver, Estes
Kehr, Dave
Keillor, Garrison
Kelly, Keith
Kelly, Paul, I
Kennedy, John Fitzgerald
Kent State shootings
Killens, John O.
The Killer inside Me (Thompson)
Killers: angelic; hit men; as outlaw lovers, retro; See also Criminals; Murder
King, Stephen
Kingston, Alex
Kiss Me Deadly (Spillane). See also Film and Broadcast Index
Kissing scenes
Kitsch
Klein, Richard H.
Kline, Franz
Klinger, Barbara
Knopf, Blanche and Alfred
Korda, Alexander
Korean characters
Kostelanetz, Richard
Kotch, Howard
Kracauer, Sigfried
Kubrick, Stanley
Kuluva, Will
Kurosawa, Akira
Labor problems, Hollywood
Labyrinth themes, city sewers
Lacanian themes
Ladd, Alan, in The Blue Dahlia, passim
Ladd, Diane
Lake, Veronica
Lakoff, George
Lancaster, Burt
Lane, Diane
Lang, Fritz
Lansbury, Angela
The Last Novel (Gaddis)
Laszlo, Ernest
Latimer, Jonathan
Latin America: backgrounds set in, themes in film noir, thriller tradition in
Latin Americans: film noir depictions of, films noirs by
Lautreamont, Compte de (Isidore Ducasse)
Lawson, John Howard
Leachman, Cloris
Lean, David
Lee, Canada
Leff, Leonard
Left Bank culture. See French intellectual culture
“Left cycle” response to right-wing themes
Left-wing community, contributions of, in France, Hollywood’s, outlaw outlook of, Republican purge of. See also Blacklist, the
Lehman, Ernest
Leigh Janet
Leja, Michael
Leonard, Elmore
Leone, Sergio
Lethem, Jonathan
Levene, Sam
Lewis, Joseph H.
Lewis, Julliette
Lewton, Val
Liberal characters
Liberal elements in Hollywood
The Life of Raymond Chandler (MacShane)
Life magazine
Lighting: Alton’s book on black and white, amber color, “exterior” sets; faces from below, fill; high-contrast, “Jimmy Valentine,”, light-in-darkness, “mystery lighting,”, neon or electric, power of color, rim light or “liner,”; spot. See also Black-and-white film; Darkness, the central metaphor of
Literature: British, popular, social-protest, . See also Modernism, literary; Novels, American
The Little Black and White Book of Film Noir (Thomson and Usukawa)
Locations. See Settings and locales, film-noir Locke, Vince
Lodge, David
Loggins, Art
Look magazine
Lord, Marjorie
Lorre, Peter
Los Angeles: Chandler in, changing demographics in, echoes of actual events in, European émigrés working in, film noir locales in, Hollywood’s imaginary treatment of, as iconic noir city, modernist ambivalence toward, police departments, Sleepy Lagoon case
Losey, Joseph
Love and Other Infectious Diseases (Haskell)
Lovers. See also Sexuality
Lowbrow culture: ascribed to low-budget films, avant-garde appreciation of
Lowry, Malcolm
Lubitsch, Ernst
Lupino, Ida
Lynch, David
Lynchings
Lyne, Adrian
Lyotard, Jean-François
MacArthur, Charles
MacDonald, Edmund
MacDonald, Joe
Macek, Carl
MacMurray, Fred: in Double Indemnity, passim
MacShane, Frank
Mad magazine
Madow, Ben
Magazines, pulp. See Pulp fiction, American
Magny, Claude-Edmonde
Mailer, Norman
Mainwaring, Daniel
Male Experience, Voice of
Male myths, celebration of, of culture as feminine, and urban darkness. See also Heroes and protagonists; Men, white
Mallarmé, Stéphane
Malraux, André
The Maltese Falcon (Hammett)
Maltese Falcon statuette
Malz, Albert
Mamet, David
Mamoulian, Rouben
Manchette, Jean-Patrick
Mankiewicz, Herman
Mann, Anthony
Mann, Michael
Marcus, Stephen
Marketing and advertising, of “A” and “B” pictures, of DTVs, film noir, of films and video-release versions, niches filled by film noir, noir images in, postmodern, and success of films noirs
Markowitz, Barry
Markson, David
Marsh, Joseph
Martial arts, Asian
Marxism
Masculinity: of African-American heroes, of the proletariat, psy-chodynamics of, threats to normative. See also Homosexuality; Male myths
Mass camp
Mass culture: affection for, anonymity in; camp sensibility in, color illustrations of, hostility of high modernism to, structural relations between modernism and, trash, trivia. See also Consumerism; Popular culture
Mass production, . See also Fordism; Mass culture; Taylorism
Mate, Rudolph
Mature, Victor
Max Shayne video game
May, Joe
McBain, Ed (Evan Hunter)
McCarthy-era Senate investigations
McDermid, Val
McGavin, Darren
McGowan, Todd
McKee, Gina
McIntire, John
Medak, Peter
Mediascape, the noir, cable television, circulation and transformation in, comic books, of contemporary American thrillers, pervasiveness of, radio, television
Meeker, Ralph
Melodrama, “blood melodrama,” . gray, high modernism and Hollywood, and modernist art, opera-style
Men, white, audiences as middle-class, as playboys; POV shots for, pulp fiction for, as spectators, voyeuristic gaze of, as “White Negroes,”. See also “Others”; names of specific ethnic and minority groups
Mencken, H. L.
Men’s friendships. See also Homosexuality
Men’s violence. See Violence
Merleau-Ponty, Maurice
Metafilm, Exterior Night as a.
Metty, Russell
Metz, Christian
Mexico. See Latin America
Meyersberg, Paul
Mez, Johnny
MGM, “Miami noir”
Middlebrow culture: elevating lowbrow art over, opposition to bourgeois and, satire of
Middle-class audiences. See Audiences
Milan, Gary
Milland, Ray
Miller, Frank
Mina, Denise
Minnelli, Vincente
Minority groups. See “Others”; names of specific ethnic and minority groups
Miramax
Mise-en-scene: hard-boiled cliche, stylized minimalist, wasteland. See also Settings and locales, film-noir
Misogyny, themes of
Mitchum, Robert, in Out of the Past
Modernism: the term
Modernism, literary, absorption and normalization of, affinity between noir and, and ambivalence toward Los Angeles, generalizations about, and high modernism, and mass culture, melodrama links with, and the new woman; and New York, themes of cinematic, transmission to America. See also Narrative themes, noir
Modernity: criticism of American, criticism of industrial, soulless women representing, of Vienna
“Momism,” fear of
Monroe, Marilyn
Moore, Susanna
Morality: censorship and, conventional, and glamour, mass culture violations of, outlaw, and social class, . See also Censorship, motion-picture; Values
Morgan, Harry
Morley, Karen
Morton, Rocky
Mosley, Walter
Motherless Brooklyn (Lethem)
Motifs, film noir. See Narrative themes, noir
Motion film journal
Motion Picture Alliance
Motion picture industry. See Distribution systems; Hollywood movies; Studios
Moviegoing, a personal history of, . See also Audiences
Movies about movies
MPPDA (Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America)
Ms. Tree comics
MTV videos
Muir, Florabel
Multiple-perspective views
Mulvey, Laura
Murder, censored scenes of, and racism. See also Killers; Violence
Murnau, F.W.
Murphy, Brittany
Music, African-American, Deja Vu song, film scores, Latin American, and soundtrack, theme, I
Musicalization: of emotions, of light
Musicals, about the underworld
Musuraca, Nicholas, Out of the Past lighting by
“Mystery lighting.” See Lighting
“Mystery man” characters
The Naked City (Debord)
Naked City (Weegee)
Narration: and cost-cutting, flashback, offscreen voice-over radio script, visual. See also Dialogue
Narrative conventions. See Conventions, film-noir
Narrative themes, noir: absurdity, alcoholism, antisocial behavior, cruelty, existentialist, Freudian, hitchhiking, nostalgia and gloom, sadism, surrealist, topicality of, as transhistori-cal, urban crime, wastelands. See also Stories and plot structures, noir
Nationalism, black
Native Son (Wright)
Nazi villains
Neal, Tom
Neale, Steve
Negative Space (Farber)
Nelligan, Kate
Nemec, Joseph
Nemerov, Alexander
Neo-noirs: compared to art films; compared to noirs, European, recent Hollywood
Neorealist pictures
Neue Sachlichkeit
Neutra, Richard
New Deal populism
New Wave: French and German, a kind of American, . See also French film culture
New York City, affinity with darkness, as the center of modernism, skylines
New York Daily News
The New Yorker magazine
New York Noir (Sante and Hannigan)
The New York Times
Newsreels, black-and-white
Nicholson, Jack, passim
Nietzsche, Friedrich
Night and Day journal
Nightclub and bar scenes, black, Korean, Latin
Noir sensibility
Noir, the term
“Noir-lite” sets
Nolan, Christopher
“Noon Street Nemesis” (Chandler)
Nostalgia: contemporary uses of, for films noirs, noir theme of. See also Allusions; Fashion
“Notes on Film Noir” (Schrader)
Novelists and their films. See specific authors
Novels, American: black social-protest, contemporary, and crime fiction, detective stories, existential themes in, multiple-perspective narratives in, World War I. See also Modernism, literary; Pulp fiction, American
Nuclear apocalypse
Nudity, themes of
O’Brien, Charles
O’Brien, Edmond
O’Brien, Geoffrey
Odets, Clifford
Office of War Information
O’Keefe, Dennis
Olin, Lena
Olmos, Edward James
Omission, uses of
O’Morrison, Kevin
O’Neill, Pat
Orbison, Roy
The Order of Things (Foucault)
Organizations: censorship by, writers’
Orientalism. See also Asian themes and characters
Ortega y Gasset, Jose
Orwell, George
Oscars. See Academy Award pictures
“Others,” half-caste women, homosexuals, noir protagonists and, stereotyped Asians, stereotyped blacks, white world. See also Class; Women; names of specific ethnic and minority groups
“Others,” films by. See African-American directors; Asians, films directed by; Latin Americans
Outlaw lovers
The Outsider (Wright)
Owen, Clive
Pacino, Al
Painting with Light (Alton)
Paintings, black and white modern
Palmer, R. Barton
A Panorama of American Film Noir (Borde and Chaumeton)
Panorama du film noir américain (Borde and Chaumeton)
Panorama journal
Paperbacks, mass-market. See Pulp fiction, American
Paramount Pictures, home office
Paris, France: II-African-American writers in. See also French intellectual culture
Parker, Robert B.
Parks, Gordon
Parodies of noir, cartoon, comic, original pictures seen as, and self-parodies
Parody, definitions of
Parrish, Leslie
Passer, Ivan
Passing, racial
Past: black-and-white as signifier of the, the missing, superficial uses of the. See also Nostalgia
Pastiche, definition of. See also Parody, definitions of
Patriarchy, and independent women. See also Feminist film criticism Paxinou, Katina
Paxton, John
passim PCA (Production Code Administration) censorship, Double Indemnity challenges to
Penn, Arthur
Peploe, Claire
Pereira, Hal
Pereira dos Santos, Nelson
Peret, Benjamin
Periodization of film noir
Peterson, Caleb
Peterson, Lowell
Petty, Lori
The Philosophy of Film Noir (Conrad)
Phipps, William
Phoenix, Arizona
Photography techniques, back projection, camera perspective, close-ups. daytime exterior, deep-focus compositions, depth of field, and digital technologies, in Falcon, John Alton’s, low-angle, low-key, night-for-night, off-center compositions, outdoor, parody or pastiche of, shift from black-and-white to color, passim; somber color, street, tilted camera, Welles’s Heart of Darkness script, wide-angle. See also cinematography techniques
Picasso, Pablo
Pinup girls, “B”-movie
Place, Janey
Playboy Films
Playboy male
Plots. See Stories and plot structures, noir
PM (tabloid)
Poe, Edgar Allan
Poetic realism
Polan, Dana
Polanski, Roman: and Chinatown
passim
Police: and corruption themes, requiring respect for, as rogue-cops
Police documentaries
Police procedurals
Policier (police story), black themes, French Grand Prix for. See also Crime melodramas
Political themes, anticommnism, antifascism, black nationalism, civil rights, New Deal populism, pro-democracy. See also Depoliti-cization of noir
Politicians. See Public officials
Politics, American: after Democrats, and fear of communism, and liberals, New Deal populism, Red generation of the 1940s. See also Left-wing community; Senate investigations
Politics in Europe, Marxism, socialism. See also Communism; Popular Front culture
Politics in the film community: after control over. See also Blacklist, the; Censorship, motion-picture; Depoliti-cization of noir
Pollack, Sydney
Pollock, Jackson
Polonsky, Abraham
Pope, Angela
Pope, Frank
Popular culture: criticism of; evolution of, satires of. See also Consumerism; Mass culture
Popular Front culture, and French films
Population change, urban
Pornography, themes of. See also Eroticism, noir
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Joyce)
Positif journal
Post-“B” pictures
Posters, film
“Postfemme fatale”
The Postman Always Rings Twice (Cain)
Postmodern culture, the emergence of, film noir as the creation of, images of film noir, the noir mediascape in
Postmodern genre, self-conscious
Poststructuralism
Postwar eras, in America, in France, in Vienna, and violence
Potter, Dennis
Pound, Ezra
POV shots, whites and blacks face-to-face
Poverty Row studios, noir productions from
Poverty, views of
Powell, Dick
Powell, Michael
Powell, William
PRC studio
Presskit, promotional
Prevert, Jaques
Priestly, J. B.
Prism Pictures
Private-eye movies
Private-eye TV shows
Prize-winning films, Cannes. See also Academy Award pictures
Producer-distributors
Production Code: objections to films noirs, prohibitions, refusals to obey the, report form. See also Breen Office; Censorship, motion-picture Production design. See Sets, film-noir
Production methods, Hollywood, low-budget. See also Black-and-white film; Lighting
Prohibitions and issues, censorship
Propaganda: in the Production Code, wartime
Props: the Detour coffee cup; guns; the Maltese Falcon statuette, the manhole cover, sinister, street lamps, symbolic, venetian blinds. See also Costumes, men’s; Costumes, women’s; Lighting; Sets, film-noir
Prostitution themes, censorship of, i
Psychoanalysis. See also Freud; Freudian themes
Psychoanalysis magazine
Public officials: and corruption, respect for, unsympathetic depictions of. See also Police
Pulp fiction, American, book covers, sources of upscale productions, success of
Pynchon, Thomas
Quaid, Dennis
Queneau, Raymond, II
Qu’est-ce que la litterature? (Sartre)
Qu’est-ce que le cinema? (Bazin)
Quigley, Martin
Rabinowitz, Paula
Racial themes in films noirs, by African Americans, imperialist and primitivist, intolerance and hatred, i Latin community 1940’s, and racial passing. See also Anti-Semitism; names of specific ethnic and minority groups
Radio programs, noir
Raksin, David
Rankin, Ian
Rappaport, Mark
Rattigan, Terence
Ray, Nicholas
Ray, Robert
Reagan, Ronald
Realism, of black and white, of gangster pictures, Poetlc, of violence, . See also Social realism and film noir Red generation of the 1940S. See also Blacklist, the
Reed, Carol
Reeves, George
Regression, themes of
Reiner, Carl
Reinhardt, Ad
Release strategies, film. See Distribution systems
Religion, Greene’s politics and, . See also Anti-Semitism
Remakes, noir, British, by cable networks
Rental outlets, film
Republic Studio
Resnais, Alain
Retro style. See also Fashion
Revenge dramas, English
Reviews, movie: American compared to French, by Greene, . See also Art criticism; Film critics
Revivals, film-festival and theater
Richards, Dick
Right-wing themes
Riots, American political
Ripstein, Arturo
Ritter, John
Rivette, Jacques
RKO studio
Road pictures: with outlaw lovers, violent
Robbins, Lance
Roberts, Eric
Robinson, Edward G.
Rodriguez, Robert
Rogers, Ginger
Rogin, Michael
Rogue-cop films
Rohmer, Eric
Roje, Arson
Roman, Serge
Romantic comedies
Romantic settings, Latin American
Romero, Roland J.
Rooney, Mickey
Rosenbaum, Jonathan
Rosenblatt, Roger
Rossen, Robert
Roundtree, Richard
Rourke, Mickey
Russell, Jane
Ryan, Robert
Sade, Marquis de
Sadism: of enemies in propaganda films, as a noir element, and sadomasochism. See also Violence
Sadistic gaze: the male, and voyeurism
Salles, Walter
Salt, Waldo
Sanctuary (Faulkner)
Sanders, Lee
San Francisco settings
Sante, Luc
Sarde, Alain
Sarris, Andrew
Sartre, Jean-Paul, on American novelists
Savage, Ann
Sayles, John
Schaefer, George
Schary, Dore, and Crossfire
Scheuer, Philip K.
Schickel, Richard
Schnyder, Franz
Schrader, Paul
Schwartz, Nancy Lynn
Scores, film. See Music Scorsese, Martin, and Mean Streets, and Raging Bull, and Taxi Driver
Scott, Adrian
Scott, Linda
Scott, Lizabeth
Scott, Tony
Screen Writers Guild
Scripts: alternate versions of, left-wing writers of noir, MPPDA reviewing of. See also Breen Office; Censorship, motion-picture
The Seduction of the Innocent (Wertham)
Seigel, Don
Selznick, David O., on Hammett
Senate investigations: McCarthy-era, of comic books
Sequels: “B” pictures, money-making
Série noire (Gallimard)
Server, Lee
Sets, film-noir, exterior; foreign settings as decor, gas chamber
Sets, film-noir (continued) interior, “noir lite,”. See also Lighting; Props
Settings and locales, film-noir, Asian, big business office, carnival or festive, cheap or sleazy, city sewers, city streets; consumer-world, domestic architecture, foggy or rainy; grocery market; home and family, hospital, hotel or motel room, labyrinths, Latin American, massified public-world,; nightclubs and bars; on-location city, police station, suburban, upper-class interior, urban diners, Watts neighborhood. See also Mise-en-scene; Urban settings; names of cities
“Sex Is Dangerous, so Satisfy Your Wife: The Softcore Thriller in Its Contexts” (Andrews)
Sexual perversity: father-daughter, mother-son; of noir villains, and voyeurism. See also Sadism
Sexual politics of film noir
Sexuality, black male hedonist, censorship of illicit, exotic forbidden, fear of a woman’s, and jealousy, and kissing scenes, mechanical modern, noir hero, noir heroine, and obsession, and paranoia, and pornographic themes, and sex by ellipsis, surrealist, of women as a weapon. See also Eroticism, noir; Homosexuality Sexuality and violence, censorship of, film criticism on, pathological, rape
Shades of Noir (Copjec)
Shamroy, Leon
Shaw, Joseph T. “Cap”
Shaw, Victoria
Shelden, Michael
Shepherd, Cybill
Shigeta, James
Shock Illustrated magazine
Shock Suspenstories
Short, Elizabeth
Short subject, noir
Showtime cable network
Shue, Elizabeth
Signorelli, Tom
Silhouette lighting. See Lighting
Silver, Alain
Simmons, Jerrold L.
Sin City comic books
Sinatra, Frank
The Singing Detective (Potter)
Siodmak, Robert
Sirk, Douglas
Sistrom, Joseph P.
Sizemore, Tom
Skjoldbjaerg, Erik
Skouras, Charles P.
Skyline, Manhattan
“Sleeper” movies
Smart Set magazine
Smith, Art
Smith, Jada Pinkett
Smoking, ritualized, parodies of
Snyder, Ruth
Sobchak, Vivian
Social class. See Class Social criticism: disdain for, in films noirs
Socialism
Social-problem pictures, about returning veterans, ; left-wing school of, passim; non-systemic
Social-protest literature, black
Social realism and film noir, post-1947 left-wing
Sociologists, cold-war
Soderbergh, Steven
Soundtracks. See Dialogue; Music; Narration
South America. See Latin America
Southern California. See Los Angeles
Soviet Union
Spanish, noir films in
Sparkuhl, Theodore
The Spectator periodical
Spectatorship, the politics of.
See also Audience reactions Spielberg, Steven
Spillane, Mickey, dialogue by, success and popularity of
Spillane, Mickey, novels by: I, the Jury by, Kiss Me Deadly
Spy stories
Standards. See Censorship, motion- picture; Morality
Stanton, Harry Dean
Stanwyck, Barbara, in Double Indemnity
Steiner, Max
Steinman, Clay
Sternberg, Josef von
Stevens, Andrew
Stevens, Connie
Stevens, Craig
Stewart, James
Stieglitz, Alfred
Stoltz, Eric
Stone, Oliver
Stone, Sharon
Stories and plot structures, noir: “blood melodramas,” “buddy” pictures, by female or gay artists, dreamlike, incoherent or confusing, multiple-perspective, nonlinear, Poverty Row production, “wrong man” pictures. See also Narrative themes, noir
Stream of consciousness, visual
Street lamps
Street photography, New York School
Stringer, Julian
Studios, “B”-picture units at, cable network, DTV and major, insurance business parallels to, Poverty Row, reorganization of Hollywood, and unions. See also Politics in the film community
Suicide, seen as escaping justice
Sullivan, Vernon (pseud.). See Vian, Boris
Sundance Film Festival
Surrealism
Surrealist film criticism: British, French, the ideal cinema of
Surtees, Robert
Suzuki, Seijun
Sydney, Sylvia
Sylbert, Richard
Taboos. See Censorship, motion-picture
The Talented Mr. Ripley (Highsmith)
Tanguy, Yves
Tarantino, Quentin, and Pulp Fiction
“Tartan Noir” fiction
Taylorism. See also Fordism; Mass culture; Mass production
Technicolor, first suspense film in, preservation of prints made in
Techniques, cinematic. See cinematography techniques; Photography techniques
Television, color, cult shows, films made for, news conference scene, parodies of noir on; photography, rise of color films and
Television, videos for home. See DTVs Television programs. See Film and Broadcast Index
Telotte, J. P.
“Terror films,” American
Theaters: movie rental costs to, revival, . See also Distribution systems; Underground cinema, American
Theory of Film Practice (Burch)
Therese Raquin (Zola)
Theroux, Justin
The Thin Man (Hammett)
The Third Man (Greene), film analysis
Thomas, Daniela
Thompson, Jim
Thomson, Peggy
Thorin, Donald
Thornton, Billy Bob
Thrillers: art, budgets of, cable network, contemporary American, early color, erotic, European English-language, hybrid Latin American. See also “B” pictures
Tierney, Gene
Titles, film. See Film and Broadcast Index
Torture. See Sadism; Violence
Toughness, literary, in detective stories
Tourism, noir
Tourneur, Jacques
Towne, Robert
Tragedy: American, Greek, revenge dramas
Train (Dexter)
Travolta, John
Trenchcoats. See Costumes, men’s
Trese, Adam
Trevor, Claire
The Trial (Kafka)
Trilling, Lionel
Truffaut, François, interview of Hitchcock
Trumbo, Dalton
Tunney, Robin
Turner, Ted
“The Turn of the Screw” (James)
Tuska, John
TV series. See Television; Film and Broadcast Index
Tweed, Shannon
Ulmer, Edgar G.
Ulysses (Joyce)
Underground cinema, American, the idea of
Underworld, musicals about the
Unionization, industrywide
Unless the Threat of Death Is Behind Them (Irwin)
U.S. Navy, censorship by the
Upside down scenes
Urban crime themes
Urban development, forms of
Urban settings: dark, deserted, diners, exterior, I, interior, Latinization of, neighborhood, nightmarish images of, sewer scenes, wet streets. See also names of cities
Urban-vigilante movies, rogue-cop
Ursini, James
Usukawa, Saeko
Valentine, Joseph
Valentine, Paul, Valli, Alida
Values: acceptance of modernist, inversion of capitalist and puritan, outlaw morality, unintelligible ethical. See also Morality
Van Peebles, Melvin
Vaughn, Matthew
Verhoeven, Paul
Vernet, Marc
Versions of films: with alternate endings, audience-influenced, “director’s cut,”. See also Distribution systems
Vertically integrated studios
Veterans, war: films about troubled, psychotic
Vian, Boris, II, J’irai cracher sur vos tombes by
Video stores: “director’s cut” versions for, movies just for
Vienna Filmmuseum exhibit (2005)
Vienna, postwar
Vietnam War: films associated with, liberal Hollywood treatments of
The Village Voice
Villains: aesthetes as, femininity of, homosexuality of, lighting from below faces of, Nazi. See also Femmes fatales; Killers
Vineland (Pynchon)
Violence, beatings and torture, censorship of, and concentration camp footage, deaths and murders, eroticized, fight scenes, “hilarious homicide” movies, interracial, lynch-mob, man-woman, offscreen, police, political and international, in propaganda films, and sexual repression, wartime and postwar, . See also Sadism; Sexuality and violence
Visual traits of film noir: archetypical images, and iconography. See also cinematography techniques; Conventions, film-noir; Lighting
Vogue magazine
Volckmann, Christian
Voyeurism
Wachowski, Larry and Andy
Wager, Jans B.
Wagner, John
“Waldorf Declaration”
Walken, Christopher
Walsh, Rodolfo J.
Wang, Wayne
Ward, Elizabeth
Warner Brothers, realistic gangster
pictures
Warner, Jack
Wars, depictions of
Washington, Denzel
The Waste Land (Eliot)
Wasteland settings
Water, reflections in
Watts, Naomi
Watts neighborhood
Wayne, John
Webb, Clifton
Webb, Jack
Webster, John
Weegee (Arthur Felig)
Weimar Germany
Welles, Orson, advice from, Citizen Kane, and the FBI, Heart of Darkness adaptation, influence of, innovations by, The Lady from Shanghai, in The Third Man, unproduced films by
Welsh, Louise
Wenders, Wim
Wertham, Fredric
West, Nathaniel
West, Rebecca
Western noirs
Westerns
Whale, James
Whaley, Frank
Whirry, Shannon
White men. See Men, white
“White Negro,” the private eye as
Wide-screen color pictures
Wiegman, Robyn
Wikipedia
Wilder, Billy, and Double Indemnity, passim, life of
Willeford, Charles
William, Warren
Williams, Linda
Willis, Bruce
Willis, Gordon
Wilson, Edmund
Wilson, Marie
Winston, Ronald
Wise, Robert
Wittgenstein, Ludwig
Wolfert, Ira
Wollen, Peter
Wolskey, Albert
Women, ambivalence toward, censorship of bodies of, as Culture or Nature, directors, fear of, female store mannequins, feminist film criticism by, “good,” mass audience representation by, misogyny towards, as mothers, movies for, noir antiheroine; as pinup girls, popular literature seen as for. See also Femmes fatales; Heroines and protagonists Women, Fire and Dangerous Things (Lakoff)
Women in Film Noir (Kaplan),“Women’s pictures”
Wong Kar-Wai
Woo, John
Wood, Elijah
Wood, Robin
Woolrich, Cornell
World War novels
World War II: concentration camp news-reels, Hollywood during, military films, propaganda films, race relations, returning veterans
World Wide Web
“Worst film” awards
Wright, Frank Lloyd
Wright, Richard
Wright, Will, I
Writers, black social-protest novel, blacklisted and uncredited, Hollywood’s left-wing, homosexual, women. See also Scripts; specific authors
“Wrong man” pictures
Yoakam, Dwight
“You Can’t Win” film exhibition
Young, Robert
Young, Sean
Zemeckis, Robert
Zero-degree style
Žižek Slavoj
Zoglin, Richard
Zola, Emile
Zsigmond, Vilmos