Nightmare alley film noir and the American dream /
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| Natura: | Elettronico eBook |
| Lingua: | inglese |
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
2013.
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| Accesso online: | An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view |
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Sommario:
- 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.