Nightmare Alley - Film Noir And The American Dream (58 page)

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Page numbers in italics refer to photographs
.

Accused, The
,
199
,
201
–3,
282
–83nn23–34

Ace in the Hole
,
254

Act of Violence
,
97
,
100
–104,
187
,
272
nn30–31

amnesia in,
78
–79,
100
,
104

function of disability in,
101
,
270
n2

and informing,
100
,
101
,
104

advertisements,
5
,
135
,
251
,
275
n4

African Americans,
11
–12,
178

Hollywood representation of,
155
,
277
n5

and jazz,
16
,
155
,
156
–57,
172
–73,
178
,
245
,
290
n46

rarely featured in film,
154
,
158

agency,
126
,
208

and American Dream,
3
,
20
–21,
143
–44

automobiles and,
134

as noir theme,
20
–21,
46

psychiatric stripping of,
98
,
205

women and,
197
,
199
,
280
n10

Aldrich, Robert,
150
,
284
n42

Algren, Nelson,
174

alienation,
48
,
76
,
97
,
289
n34

and individualism,
69
,
249

as noir theme,
14
,
77
–78,
92

Alton, John,
70
,
95
,
96
,
176

American Dream,
4
,
5
,
12
,
47
,
75
,
142
,
198

agency at core of,
3
,
20
–21,
143
–44

automobiles and,
134
,
152

as chimera and sham,
64
,
249
,
260

and criminality,
4
,
199
,
226

and domesticity,
99
–100,
101
,
258
,
260

in hitchhiking films,
135
,
144

and individualism,
4
,
135

jazz and,
156
,
170
,
179

No Man of Her Own
depiction of,
62
,
64

in portraiture films,
107
–8,
126

The Prowler
depiction of,
221
,
249
–50,
255
,
260

pursuit of as nightmare,
10
,
199

pursuit of happiness and,
2
,
17

red noir films on,
221
,
226
,
234
,
242
–43

and self-reinvention,
45
,
79
,
105
,
115
,
250

Try and Get Me!
depiction of,
249
–50

of upward mobility,
10
,
63
,
231
,
259

amnesia,
15
,
271
n22

in dream films,
37
–40

in identity films,
47
,
49
–50,
59

in vet noir films,
77
,
78
–79,
88
,
92
,
93
–96,
97
,
99
,
100
,
104

Anatomy of a Murder
,
174

Andersen, Thom,
225
,
288
n25

Anderson, Edward,
136

Andrews, Dana,
81
,
109
,
111

Angelus
(Millet),
127
–28,
274
n22

antifascism,
12
,
221
,
285
–86n3

anxiety,
13
,
14
,
161
,
270
n10

automobiles and,
152

postwar,
12
,
13
,
78
,
97

Appointment with Danger
,
277
n7

Arlen, Harold,
156

Armored Car Robbery
,
289
n38

Armstrong, Louis,
158
,
170
,
172
,
278
nn21–22

art forgery,
4
,
16
,
274
n21,
275
n27

and authorship,
122

in
La chienne
,
120
–21

in
Crack-Up
,
106
–7,
127
–30

in
Laura
,
110
,
112

and originality,
107
,
127
–28,
129
–30,
131

in
Scarlet Street
,
122
–25

Ashley, Edward,
163
,
165

Asphalt Jungle, The
,
220
–21,
239
–44,
289
n38,
289
–90nn40–43