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action films 19, 23, 34, 37, 81, 83, 87, 92, 107
Adorno, Theodor 5
adventure films 33–4, 38, 65–6, 83
Alger, Horatio 43
Altman, Rick 4, 6, 9, 10, 20, 35, 104
Amis, Suzy 82
Anderson, Benedict 102
Aristotle 4
Armstrong, Louis 90
Arnold, Matthew 5
auteur theory 3, 37, 56–60, 66, 67–8, 72
Barthes, Roland 32–3, 47, 58, 64, 77
Basie, Count 11
Bergman, Ingmar 1
Berry, Chuck 90
Bigelow, Kathryn 86–9
biopics 36
black comedy 23
Body Snatchers, The (novel) 51
Bordwell, David 1, 7, 15–16, 23, 26
Boswell, Connie 44
Bourget, Jean-Loup 33
Bronson, Charles 107
Brooks, Van Wyck 5
Brown, Jim 92
Browning, Tod 48
Buscombe, Ed 12–13
Bush, George W. 38
Cain, James M. 26
caper films; see heist films
Chabrol, Claude 57–8
Chandler, Raymond 26
Charlie Chan (series) 36
Coen, Joel 28
Coen, Ethan 28
Collins, Jim 23
comedy 4, 10, 16, 18, 20, 23, 26, 33, 35, 66, 92, 95
Comolli, Jean 34
Cook, Pam 34
crime films 12, 23, 57, 71, 95
Cronenberg, David 106
Crosby, Bing 44
Cruise, Tom 20
cult movies 30
Dahl, John 28
Davis, Geena 82
Davis, Ossie 93
Dawn, Dolly 46
de Palma, Brian 37
Dee, Ruby 93
Depp, Johnny 18
Dern, Bruce 20
Desser, David 107
detective films 27, 36, 80, 92
Dickerson, Ernest 95
Disney, Walt 5
Dobson, Tamara 92
Douglas, Drake 52
Durgnat, Raymond 19
Eisenstein, Sergei 19
Elam, Jack 19
Ewell, Tom 43–4
Fairbanks, Douglas 83
Fassbinder, Rainer Werner 1, 79, 105
Feminism 3
film noir 2, 20, 24–8, 33, 46, 61, 71–2, 75, 107
Focillon, Henri 35
Ford, John 13, 15, 36, 56, 58–61, 63–9, 91, 98, 100–1
Forster, E. M. 17
Franck, Arnold 107
Gallagher, Tag 36
gangster films 8, 14, 23, 27, 30, 65, 80, 95
Gates, Henry Louis Jr 94
Gould, Elliott 18
Greenwald, Maggie 82
Grier, Pam 92
Hamilton, Linda 82
Hammer Studios 48
Hammett, Dashiell 26
Haskell, Molly 81
Hawks, Howard 9, 25, 58–9, 65–71, 83
Haynes, Todd 79
heist films 85
Hill, Walter 83
Holden, William 20
Horkheimer, Max 5
horror films 1, 3, 11, 17, 20–1, 31, 33, 35, 47–8, 50–5, 74, 80, 86, 88–9, 106
Hunter, Ross 76
Huston, John 27
Jackson, Peter 106
Jaeckel, Richard 19
Jeffries, Herb 99
Johnson, Noble 99
Kaminsky, Stuart 23
Kawin, Bruce 59
Kelly, Gene 40
Klinger, Barbara 34
Krutnik, Frank 26
Ladd, Alan 30
Lee, Spike 93–5
Leigh, Janet 88
Leitch, Tom 23
Leone, Sergio 20
Lévi-Strauss, Claude 31
Little Richard 44
Lucas, George 38
Macdonald, Dwight 5
Martin, Dean 9
Mature, Victor 83
McArthur, Colin 8
melodrama 11, 12, 16, 23, 32–3, 56–7, 75–6, 80, 87, 90, 93, 107
Melville, Herman 70
Mifune, Toshiro 107
Miller, Toby 104
Miller, George 105
Moby Dick (novel) 70
Monogram Studios 36
Montgomery, Monty 86
Motion Pictures Patent Company 7
Mulvey, Laura 82
Muni, Paul 18
Murdoch, Rupert 103
musicals 3, 10, 14, 19, 39–40, 43, 45, 47, 65, 80, 90
Narboni, Jean 34
Naremore, James 107
O’Neal, Ron 92
O’Regan, Tom 104–5
Pamela (novel) 49
Panofsky, Erwin 11
Paramount Studios 9
parody 11, 23, 33, 35–6, 38, 73, 77
Peckinpah, Sam 13, 14, 21, 100–1
Perkins, Anthony 19
Pickens, Slim 19
Polanski, Roman 28
popular culture 2, 4–6, 28, 33–4, 40, 59, 93–4
postmodernism 3
Propp, Vladimir 18
psychoanalysis 3
Richardson, Samuel 49
RKO Studios 40
Robinson, Edward G. 72–3
Roundtree, Richard 92
Ryall, Tom 2
science fiction 1, 3, 11, 14, 16, 23–4, 28, 30, 34, 36, 38–9, 57, 66, 80, 83, 95, 106
Scorsese, Martin 37
screwball comedy 16, 18, 23, 65–6
Seagal, Steven 83
semiology 32
Shohat, Ella 104
Singleton, John 95
Sirk, Douglas 56, 75–9, 87, 90
slapstick comedy 106
Snipes, Wesley 93
Sobchack, Vivian 24
Sobchack, Thomas 29
Spielberg, Steven 37
Stam, Robert 104
Star Trek (TV series) 38
stars 17–19, 23, 83, 90, 92–3, 99
Stoker, Bram 48–50
Strode, Woody 99–100
Tamblyn, Russ 10
television 1, 9, 27, 34, 37, 54, 59, 79, 93
Thoreau, Henry David 77
Thurman, Uma 82
Truffaut, Francois 57–8
Tudor, Andrew 22
Twentieth Century Fox 9, 36–7, 103
UFA 76
Vallee, Rudy 44
Van Damme, Jean–Claude 83
Van Peebles, Mario 100–1
war films 8, 18, 36, 56–7, 65, 80
Washington, Denzel 93
Wayne, John 9, 18, 20, 38, 60–1, 63, 67, 85–6, 91
Weaver, Sigourney 82
Welles, Orson 27
Wenders, Wim 104
westerns 11, 13–15, 17, 19, 21–3, 26, 33, 36, 38–9, 56, 59–65, 67, 70, 74, 81–2, 85, 90–2, 96–7, 99–100, 105, 107
Williams, Linda 23
Willis, Bruce 83–4
Wills, Chill 19
Wilson, Owen 107
Woo, John 105
Wood, Robin 9, 47–50, 54, 58, 66
Wright, Judith Hess 33
Zugsmith, Albert 76