INDEX

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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

Alloway, Lawrence 11, 56

Altman, Rick 4, 6, 9, 10, 20, 35, 104

Altman, Robert 1, 37, 93

Amis, Suzy 82

Anderson, Benedict 102

Aristotle 4

Armstrong, Louis 90

Arnold, Matthew 5

art cinema 1, 17, 57

Astaire, Fred 18, 40, 45–6

auteur theory 3, 37, 56–60, 66, 67–8, 72

authorship 3, 59

B films 27, 34

Barthes, Roland 32–3, 47, 58, 64, 77

Basie, Count 11

Bazin, Andrè 9–10, 59

Belafonte, Harry 92, 99

Bergman, Ingmar 1

Berkeley, Busby 39, 42–3

Berry, Chuck 90

Bigelow, Kathryn 86–9

biopics 36

black comedy 23

blaxploitation films 92, 99

Bogart, Humphrey 18, 57

Body Snatchers, The (novel) 51

Bordwell, David 1, 7, 15–16, 23, 26

Boswell, Connie 44

Bourget, Jean-Loup 33

Braudy, Leo 37, 72

Bronson, Charles 107

Brooks, Mel 11, 35–6, 99

Brooks, Van Wyck 5

Brown, Jim 92

Browning, Tod 48

buddy films 81, 92

Buscombe, Ed 12–13

Bush, George W. 38

Cahiers du cinéma 33, 56–9

Cain, James M. 26

caper films; see heist films

Capra, Frank 27, 56, 65

Carpenter, John 34, 37, 83

Cawelti, John 6, 15, 37, 49

Chabrol, Claude 57–8

Chan, Jackie 105, 107

Chandler, Raymond 26

Charlie Chan (series) 36

Coen, Joel 28

Coen, Ethan 28

Collins, Jim 23

Columbia Pictures 37, 103

comedy 4, 10, 16, 18, 20, 23, 26, 33, 35, 66, 92, 95

Comolli, Jean 34

Cook, Pam 34

Coppola, Francis Ford 1, 37

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

Dracula (novel) 48, 50

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

Fix, Paul 19, 70

Flynn, Errol 83, 98

Focillon, Henri 35

Ford, John 13, 15, 36, 56, 58–61, 63–9, 91, 98, 100–1

Forster, E. M. 17

Franck, Arnold 107

Frankenstein 8, 23, 35

Frankfurt School 5, 34

Frye, Northrop 18, 30

Gallagher, Tag 36

gangster films 8, 14, 23, 27, 30, 65, 80, 95

Gates, Henry Louis Jr 94

Godard, Jean-Luc 1, 57

Gould, Elliott 18

Grant, Cary 18, 66

Greenwald, Maggie 82

Grier, Pam 92

Griffith, D. W. 7, 91

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

Hitchcock, Alfred 56, 65, 71

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

Kitses, Jim 32, 97

Klinger, Barbara 34

Krutnik, Frank 26

Kurosawa, Akira 39, 107

Ladd, Alan 30

Lancaster, Burt 46, 107

Lang, Fritz 64, 71–5

Lee, Spike 93–5

Leigh, Janet 88

Leitch, Tom 23

Leone, Sergio 20

Lévi-Strauss, Claude 31

Little Richard 44

Lorre, Peter 36, 72

Lucas, George 38

Macdonald, Dwight 5

Mann, Anthony 15, 64

Martin, Dean 9

Marx, Groucho 10, 36

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

MGM 9, 43

Mifune, Toshiro 107

Miller, Toby 104

Miller, George 105

Mitchum, Robert 28, 94

Moby Dick (novel) 70

Monogram Studios 36

Montgomery, Monty 86

Motion Pictures Patent Company 7

Mulligan, Richard 96, 98

Mulvey, Laura 82

Muni, Paul 18

Murdoch, Rupert 103

musicals 3, 10, 14, 19, 39–40, 43, 45, 47, 65, 80, 90

mystery films 23, 36

Narboni, Jean 34

Naremore, James 107

national cinema 1, 102–4, 106

Neale, Steve 6, 23, 87

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

Poitier, Sidney 92, 99

Polanski, Roman 28

popular culture 2, 4–6, 28, 33–4, 40, 59, 93–4

pornography 1, 23

postmodernism 3

Powell, Dick 18–19, 40

Presley, Elvis 44, 94

Propp, Vladimir 18

psychoanalysis 3

Pye, Douglas 9, 15

Richardson, Samuel 49

RKO Studios 40

road movies 81, 93, 95, 104

Robinson, Edward G. 72–3

Rogers, Ginger 40, 45–6

romantic comedy 16, 23, 33

Romero, George A. 11, 53

Roundtree, Richard 92

Ryall, Tom 2

Sarris, Andrew 57, 59

Schrader, Paul 24, 26

Schwarzenegger, Arnold 19, 84

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

Siegel, Don 15, 50

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

Staiger, Janet 15, 22–3, 26

Stallone, Sylvester 83, 85

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

Tasker, Yvonne 84, 89

television 1, 9, 27, 34, 37, 54, 59, 79, 93

Thoreau, Henry David 77

thriller 1, 28, 95

Thurman, Uma 82

Townsend, Robert 92, 95

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

Warner Bros. 9, 19, 36–7, 39

Warshow, Robert 10, 14, 21

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

Wollen, Peter 58–60, 65, 69

Woo, John 105

Wood, Robin 9, 47–50, 54, 58, 66

Wright, Judith Hess 33

Zugsmith, Albert 76