James Naremore - More Than Night - Film Noir in Its Contexts

See also Distribution systems Vertically integrated studios, 141 Veterans, war:

films about troubled, 107-14, 114-23, 126-27; psychotic, 34-35

Vian, Boris, 11, 27;

J'rai cracher sur vos tombes by, 12-13, 280n6 Video stores:

"director's cut" versions

for, 162-63, 264;

movies just for, 38, 161-63, 164-65 Vienna, postwar, 77, 79 Vietnam War:

films associated with, 33, 34, 209; liberal Hollywood treatments of, 127 The Village Voice, 32, 154 Villains:

aesthetes as, 99, 222, 254;

femininity of, 60;

homosexuality of, 99, 151;

lighting from below faces of, 173, 183 (figs.), 193;

Nazi, 99, 102.

See also Femmes fatales; Killers Vineland (Pynchon), 265-66 Violence, 102-3, 114-15;

beatings and torture, 20, 21-22, 53, 57, 63, 74, 110-11, 114-15, 127, 144, 204, 207-8;

censorship of, 57, 102, 110-11, 293n8;

and concentration camp footage, 102;

deaths and murders, 20, 71-72, 80, 115, 127, 147, 205, 207;

eroticized, 20, 22, 30, 283n28;

fight scenes, 24, 103, 158, 217;

"hilarious homicide" movies, 56; interracial, 116-17, 245, 249; lynch-mob, 126-27;

man-woman, 152, 158, 182, 185 (figs.), 204; offscreen, 111, 127; police, 247;

political and international, 34, 102; in propaganda films, 102, 225; and sexual repression, 34-35; wartime and postwar, 102-3.

See also Sadism; Sexuality and violence Visual traits of film noir: archetypical images, 168-69; and iconography, 168-69, 273-74, 275, 305n10.

See also Cinematography techniques; Conventions, film-noir; Lighting Vogue magazine, 106 Voyeurism, 182, 184 (fig.), 207, 264

Wachowski, Larry and Andy, 266 "Waldorf Declaration," 123 Walken, Christopher, 217 Walsh, Rodolfo J., 28 Wang, Wayne, 228, 305n10 Ward, Elizabeth, 9-10, 103, 261 Warner Brothers, 100; realistic gangster pictures, 55-56, 57, 60 Wars, depictions of, 33-34, 127, 209 Washington, Denzel, 246, 249-53, 251 (fig.)

The Waste Land (Eliot), 35, 44, 53, 66, 285n48, 289n37

Wasteland settings, 75, 127, 148, 150

Water, reflections in, 9, 173, 181 (fig.), 193

Watts neighborhood, 250, 253

Wayne, John, 20, 127, 287n16

Webb, Clifton, 222, 262

Webb, Jack, 200, 260

Webster, John, 70

Weimar Germany, 42, 45, 88, 144, 292n62 Welles, Orson, 3, 190, 214; advice from, 219;

Citizen Kane, 4, 13, 26, 47, 77, 125, 132; and the FBI, 130;

Heart of Darkness adaptation, 237-39, 306n19; influence of, 154, 165; innovations by, 160;

The Lady from Shanghai , 36 (fig.), 38, 158, 201, 209, 226, 230, 231, 261, 294n21; in The ThirdMan, 76-77, 79 (fig.), 291n48; unproduced films by, 160, 165,237-39 Wenders, Wim, 38, 192, 202-3, 303n35 Wertham, Fredric, 258, 307n2 West, Nathaniel, 208 West, Rebecca, 23 Western noirs, 6, 165 Westerns, 100, 277 Whale, James, 67 Whaley, Frank, 257 Whirry, Shannon, 162, 163 White men. See Men, white "White Negro," the private eye as, 240-41, 242 (fig.)

Wide-screen color pictures, 36-37 Wiegman, Robyn, 241 Wilder, Billy, 16, 131; and Double Indemnity, 81-95 passim, 264; life of, 87-88

Willeford, Charles, 216, 232, 286n4 William, Warren, 56-57, 59 (fig.)

Williams, Linda, 162

Willis, Bruce, 213 (figs.), 214, 217-18, 245 Willis, Gordon, 191-92, 302n27 Wilson, Edmund, 52, 235 Wilson, Marie, 57, 59 (fig.)

Wise, Robert, 241-42 Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 5 Wolfert, Ira, 125 Wolskey, Albert, 197

Women, 71, 89, 172, 174, 206, 208, 303n37; ambivalence toward, 133-34, 207, 210; censorship of bodies of, 101; as Culture or Nature, 89; directors, 223; fear of, 44, 89, 133, 182; female store mannequins, 157 (fig.), 158; feminist film criticism by, 12, 211, 221, 280n7;

"good," 89, 133-34;

mass audience representation by, 44, 64, 128; misogyny towards, 152, 158, 204, 221, 226, 245, 305n14; as mothers, 133-34; movies for, 223;

noir antiheroine, 20, 89, 91 (fig.), 199 (fig.);

as pinup girls, 29, 153;

popular

(Women continued) literature seen as for, 44, 64, 287n12.

See also Femmes fatales; Heroines and protagonists Women, Fire and Dangerous Things, (Lakoff), 5 Women in Film Noir (Kaplan), 221 "Women's pictures," 223 Wong Kar-Wai, 228 Woo, John, 228 Wood, Robin, 35

Woolrich, Cornell, 145, 160, 223, 256, 259 World War I novels, 65 World War II:

concentration camp newsreels, 102, 191; military films, 170; propaganda films, 102, 225; race relations, 237, 252; returning veterans, 107-14, 114-23, 126-27 World Wide Web, 256 "Worst film" awards, 297n7 Wright, Richard, 12, 235-36, 305n17 Wright, Will, 112 (figs.), 113 Writers, 132, 255-56; black social-protest novel, 235-36; blacklisted and uncredited, 125, 128, 131;

Hollywood's left-wing, 104, 105, 131; homosexual, 223; women, 223.

See also Scripts; specific authors

Yoakum, Dwight, 272 Young, Rob ert, 121 Young, Sean, 197

Z

Zemeckis, Robert, 212, 259 Zero-degree style, 24, 284n34 Zoglin, Richard, 163 Zsigmond, Vilmos, 203-4

Ace in the Hole , 93

Across the Pacific , 225

After Dark, My Sweet, 160

Against All Odds, 299n25

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (TV series), 259

Algiers , 292n15

All the King's Men, 125, 130

All Through the Night, 73

The American Friend, 202

The American Soldier, 202

The Apartment, 88

Apology (TV film), 163

Appointment with Danger, 260

The Argyle Secrets, 143-44, 259

The Asphalt Jungle, 3, 124, 131 (fig.), 128-30, 232, 262, 295n32

Attack!, 3, 4

The Bad and the Beautiful, 269n35

Bad Company, 246

The Bad Sleep Well, 227

Badlands, 19

Band Wagon, 198-200, 199 (fig.)

Barb Wire, 256

Barton Fink, 10

Basic Instinct, 200, 263, 264-65, 283n28

Batman film series, 256, 257, 267

The Big Clock, 98, 167, 299n25

The Big Combo, 143, 156

The Big Heat, 186, 222

Big, Jim McLain, 127

The Big Knife, 132, 296n35

The Big Sleep, 23, 85, 124, 139, 167, 222

The Big Sleep (1978), 212

Black Angel, 139

Black Rain, 227

Blackboard Jungle, 156

Blade Runner, 232, 305n13

Blood Simple, 160

BlowUp, 191, 295n24

The Blue Dahlia, 107-14 passim, 112 (figs.)

Blue Steel, 223

Blue Velvet, 267, 274

Body and Soul, 124

Body Heat, 36, 160, 192, 200, 232, 233, 262

Bond series (James Bond), 153, 244, 283n25

Bonnie and Clyde, 128, 151,210

Border Incident, 20, 143

Bound, 266

The Breaking Point, 124

Breathless, 27, 137, 160, 202

Breathless (1983), 160

The Bride of Frankenstein, 67

Brighton Rock, 75-76, 78 (fig.);

Greene's novel, 70-72

Brute Force, 20, 125

Bullet-Proof Heart, 160

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, 47, 269

Cafe Society , 257

Cape Fear, 161, 200

Captives , 223

Carnet de bal, 68

Casablanca, 231, 284n43, 297n7

Casino, 162, 302n29

Cat People, 9, 140

Cause for Alarm, 223