Nightmare Alley - Film Noir And The American Dream (63 page)

and disability,
78
,
83

hitchhiking and,
145

veterans’ redefining of,
78
,
79

Mason, Fran,
289
n40

Mason, James,
212
,
213

masquerade,
54
,
62
,
73
–74,
194
,
195

Massey, Raymond,
118
,
205

Maté, Rudolph,
19
,
160

Maxfield, James,
58

May, Lary,
220
,
225
,
289
n41

Mayo, Virginia,
82
,
149

McCann, Sean,
277
n11,
279
n33

McClary, Susan,
163

McGilligan, Patrick,
122
,
220

McGivern, William,
278
n24,
279
n28

McLean, Adrienne,
180
,
279
n35

Medford, Harold,
197

media,
221
,
248

The Asphalt Jungle
on,
243
–44

and red scare,
224
,
245
,
290
n48

Try and Get Me!
on,
250
,
254

The Underworld Story
on,
221
,
245
–46,
249

Meegeren, Han van,
274
n21

melodrama,
14
,
23
,
187
,
189
,
216

memory,
39
,
80
,
87
,
162
,
260

and dreams,
25
,
41
–42

and forgetting,
79

loss of,
49
–50,
93
,
96
,
98
,
104

and music,
163
,
169

postwar America’s crisis of,
104
,
105

reliability of,
106
–7

and trauma,
22
,
23
,
104
.
See also
amnesia

Men, The
,
272
n30

Mercer, Johnny,
156
,
273
n6

Meredyth, Bess,
188

metonymy,
22
,
24
–25,
41
,
43
,
265
n9

Meyer, Leonard,
128

Meyerowitz, Joanne,
186

Mijolla, Alain de,
22

Miklitsch, Robert,
275
n25

Mildred Pierce
,
188
–91,
216
,
280
nn7–10

Milestone, Lewis,
228
,
285
–86n3,
286
n7,
287
n22

Millet, Jean-Francois,
127
–28,
274
n22

Mills, Katie,
134

Minturn, Kent,
272
–73n1,
274
n21

mirrors,
62
,
96
,
116
,
117
,
119
,
125

mise-en-scène,
31
,
189
,
234
,
256
,
285
n51

mistaken identity.
See
switched-identity films

Mitchell, David T.,
77
,
78
,
270
n5

Mitchum, Robert,
54
,
85

mobility,
3
,
15
,
47
,
140

automobiles and,
134
,
137
,
142
,
143
,
144

class,
2
,
58
,
62

and identity,
20

social,
3
,
4
,
12
,
16
,
141
,
189
.
See also
upward mobility

modernist art,
127
,
274
n23

modernity,
3
,
4
–5,
14
,
150
–51

Moffat, Kathie,
185

money,
62
,
170
–71,
260

Monroe, Marilyn,
241

Moorehead, Agnes,
66
,
208

More Than Night
(Naremore),
14

motherhood,
17
,
149
,
186
,
187
–88,
191
,
214

Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals (MPAPAI),
222
,
228
,
287
n20

Motion Picture Association of America,
222

Munby, Jonathan,
236
,
288
–89n32

Murder, My Sweet
,
77
,
266
n26,
275
n1

Murray, Albert,
173

music: in
The Big Combo
,
174
–75

in
Black Angel
,
166
,
278
n17

blues,
156
–58,
160
,
167
,
177
,
179
,
182

crime jazz scoring,
174
,
279
n29

and flashbacks,
161
–62

inaudibility of,
154
,
276
n2

and memory,
163
,
169

in
Nightmare
,
167

in
Nocturne
,
163
–64

swing,
156
,
158
,
174
,
178
,
277
n7.
See also
jazz

My Name Is Julia Ross
,
48
,
58
–60,
267
nn6–9

Nadelson, Theodore,
88
,
99
,
101

Naked City
,
226
–27,
287
n16

Naremore, James,
13
,
14
,
224
,
291
n2

Navasky, Victor,
223
,
224

Neale, Steve,
12
,
187
,
264
n11

negative footage,
19
,
264
n1

Nelson, Ralph,
196

Ness, Richard,
110

Neve, Bria,
287
–88n23

Nichols, Dudley,
122

Night Holds Terror, The
,
147
–48

Nightmare
,
167
–68,
278
n19

Nightmare Alley
,
1
,
6
–10,
249
,
263
–64nn2–6

on identity and mobility,
11
,
15

nightmares.
See
dreams

Night Shift
(Wolff),
180

Nocturne
,
163
–65,
191
,
278
n16

No Man of Her Own
,
48
,
60
–65,
267
–68nn11–20

and censors,
64
,
268
n19

source novel for,
61
,
62
,
64
,
268
n13,
268
n17

Norden, Martin,
270
n1

Notorious
,
13

Not Wanted
,
214
,
277
–78n15,
285
nn48–49

objectivity,
16
,
107

O’Brien, Edmond,
50
,
146
,
149
,
160
,
216

Odds against Tomorrow
,
172
–74,
278
–79nn24–28,
289
n39

O’Donnell, Cathy,
81
,
138
,
138

oedipal complex,
24
,
25
–26,
27
,
28
,
263
n3

Oliver, Kelly,
14
,
264
n2

Ophuls, Max,
211
,
284
n42

organized crime,
220
,
234
–35,
240
–41,
289
–90nn41–42

originality,
106
,
107
,
127

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

Ornitz, Samuel,
286
n7

Orr, John,
3

Osborne, Robert,
267
n9

outlaw road movies,
135

Out of the Past
,
5
,
48
,
54
–58,
77
,
266
n26,
267
nn4–5

Outrage
,
203
–4,
283
nn35–36

Pagano, Jo,
180
,
250
,
279
n36

Painter’s Daughters, The
,
130
,
275
n28

Palmer, R. Barton,
207
,
283
n37

Parker, Eleanor,
207
,
209

Parker, Francine,
215

Parks, Larry,
286
n7

Parsonnet, Marion,
193

past,
20
,
37
,
48
,
105
,
259

and future,
94

and present,
5

patriarchy,
17
,
204
,
205

Patrick, Jack,
287
n21

Paxton, John,
84
,
86

Peck, Gregory,
37
,
266
n21

Pegler, Westbrook,
290
n48

Pelizzon, V. Penelope,
72
,
73
,
74
,
269
n26

Perry, Eleanor,
188

Petrified Forest, The
,
25

Pevney, Joseph,
164
,
227
,
231

Phantom Lady
,
159
,
171
,
192
,
271
n20,
272
–73n1,
277
nn9–12,
281
n12

photography,
9
,
82
,
139

and cinema,
73
,
76

Piano in the Band
(Curran),
276
–77n4

picaro figure,
143
,
276
n11

Pichel, Irving,
286
n4,
286
n7

Planer, Franz,
31

Polan, Dana,
65
,
69
,
268
n21

Polonsky, Abraham,
17
,
220
,
289
n34

blacklisting and wiretapping of,
224
,
238
,
289
n35

and
Body and Soul
,
231
,
234
,
288
n26,
288
n30

and
Force of Evil
,
234
,
238
,
289
nn35–36

and
Odds Against Tomorrow
,
278
n24,
278
–79n27

Popular Front,
87
,
221
,
271
n15,
276
–77n4

Porfirio, Robert,
159
,
160

portraiture films,
4
,
16
,
106
,
131
,
261
,
272
–73n1

La chienne
,
106
,
116
,
119
–22,
126
,
274
n17

The Dark Corner
,
106
,
113
–15,
273
nn9–11

I Wake Up Screaming
,
106
,
107
–9,
115

Laura
,
106
,
109
–12,
273
nn3–8

Scarlet Street
,
106
,
116
,
122
–26,
274
nn19–20

Vicki
,
115
–16,
274
n13

The Woman in the Window
,
36
,
106
,
116
–19,
266
n19,
274
nn14–18

Possessed
,
205
–7,
283
–84nn37–39

Postman Always Rings Twice, The
,
133

posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD),
33
,
170
,
272
n32,
279
n38

in vet noir films,
79
,
82
,
85
–86,
88
,
89
,
90
,
98

postwar period,
20
,
82
,
135
,
217
–18

anxieties of,
12
,
13
,
78
,
97

and automobiles,
133
–34,
152

and identity,
4
,
5
,
97

and jazz,
12
,
154
,
155
,
158
,
163

and memory,
104
,
105

paranoid atmosphere of,
97
,
221
,
226

Preminger, Otto,
110
,
174
,
273
n8,
274
n14

press.
See
media

Prime, Rebecca,
226

prison,
75
,
136
,
207
–10,
211

Prowler, The
,
239
–40,
255
–60,
291
nn5–6

American Dream in,
221
,
249
–50

psychiatrists and psychiatry,
6
,
11
,
22
,
23
,
202
,
211

and patients’ agency,
98
,
205

psychoanalysis,
2
,
5
,
73
–74