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

Alienation, 86, 87, 236, 249, 253, 268 Allen, Woody, 136, 191

Allied Artists (Monogram) studio, 141, 143, 150

Allusions, 36, 38-39, 151, 158, 159, 168, 215-16, 217-18, 257, 267-75.

See also Conventions, film-noir; Remakes, noir Alonzo, John, 208, 212, 305n37 Altman, Robert, 203-5 Alton, John, 33, 142, 143, 156, 189, 301n18;

Painting with Light, 172-74, 301n8

Ambience. See Mise-en-scene; Settings and locales, film-noir Ambiguity:

existentialist, 24, 25, 26, 148; moral and sexual, 53, 80, 118, 223;

"mystery man," 119, 295n24; public and private, 65; surrealist, 18, 21, 282n2 Ambler, Eric, 282n15 Ameida Prado, Guilherme de, 36 (fig.), 38 American dream, the, 125, 130, 241, 250, 275, 286n8; black comedy about, 158-59, 219.

See also Capitalism; Modernity American International Pictures, 156 "American romance," the, 52-53

Amis, Martin, 255

L'amour fou, the term, 21, 89, 91 (fig.)

Andersen, Thom, 123-24, 131 Andrews, Dana, 23 Anfam, David, 171 Angel, Heather, 64 Les années noirs, 24 Anonymity in public, 89, 90 (fig.)

Anticommunist noir, 127, 295n29 Antifascist themes, 115-16, 125, 131 Antigenre, film noir as an, 22

Antiheroes. See Criminals; Heroes and protagonists; Killers Antiheroines. See Femmes fatales; Heroines and protagonists Anti-Semitism: of characters, 114;

Eliot's, 65, 289n37;

films against, 116-17, 120, 294n21;

Greene's, 65, 66; of Hollywood censors 97.

See also Racial themes in films noirs Antisocial behaviors of noir characters, 18, 20, 21.

See also Criminals; Violence Antiwar movement, 33

Antonioni, Michaelangelo, 38, 190, 191, 203, 295n24

Apocalypse, nuclear, 22, 153, 298n23

Apparadurai, Arjun, 225

Aragon, Louis, 18, 19, 282n22

Argentina, thrillers in, 28

Arnold, Matthew, 290n44

Arquette, Patricia, 273 (fig.), 274

Art categories, dissolution of boundaries between, 38, 156 Art cinema, American, 159-61, 267.

See also European art films Art criticism: academic, 106, 261; the nature of, 5-6; and politics, 284n36, 294n15 Art criticism, French. See French film culture Art direction, noir 86, 182.

See also Props; Sets, film-noir Art films:

Asian, 227;

orneo-noir, 270-72, 271 (fig.).

See also European art films Artmaudit, 139-40 Art theaters, urban, 28, 136-37 "Art thrillers," 48, 156-58, 160, 166, 270 Arthur, Paul, 250

Asian Americans, films directed by, 227-29 Asian themes and characters, 8, 208, 225-29; anti-Asian propaganda Images, 225, 226-27;

Chinese, 225, 228;

Japanese, 102, 225, 226;

Korean, 23, 226; orientalism, 225, 227, 228 Asians, films directed by:

Hong Kong films, 228-29;

Japanese "B" pictures, 227-28 Assante, Armand, 197

Assassinations:

American political, 34, 134, 186; hired killer, 158 Asta (the dog), 54, 288n31 Astaire, Fred, 199 (fig.)

Astor, Mary, 60, 61, 62 (fig.), 101 Attenborough, Richard, 75, 78 (fig. 12) "Attraction, cinema of," 170 Audience reactions: to Crossfire, 119-20, 122; and picture changes, 263-64; preview cards, 119-20; and spectatorship, 238, 239; unwanted laughter, 21, 262 Audiences:

"B" pictures for provincial, 140; children as, 140, 256-57, 291n51; for comic books, 256-57, 258; film-noir niche, 8, 136-37, 267, 276;

"mass camp" sensibility of, 261-62; middle-class white male, 161, 276; movies for women, 223; past and present, 261;

popular literature for female, 46, 64, 287n12; pulp fiction for male, 44, 46, 49-50, 161; shopping-mall cinema, 266, 267.

See also Distribution systems Auster, Paul, 255 Austin, J. R., 5

Auteur, the concept of, 11, 26-27, 137, 296n2

Auteurs, politique des , 32

"Author function," 11

Avant guerre period, 15, 16, 24, 281n12

Avant-garde, appreciation of lowbrow culture by the, 32, 137

Avary, Roger, 216, 219

Aznavour, Charles, 202

"B" pictures, 7, 29, 44, 137, 140-55, 155-66, 216, 227-28.

See also Thrillers Bacall, Lauren, 74 Baker, Joe Don, 270 Ballard, J. P., 255 Ballard, Lucian, 158, 159 (fig.)

Bar scenes. See Nightclub and bar scenes

Barthes, Roland, 24, 42

Bastel, Victoria, 194-96, 195 (fig.)

Baudelaire, Charles, 42, 44, 70-71, 290n42

Bazin, André, 17, 25-26

BBC thrillers, 164, 260

Beals, Jennifer, 250

Beatings. See Violence, film noir

Begley, Ed, 242

Belafonte, Harry, 242, 243 (fig.)

Bendix, William, 63, 102, 109 Benjamin, Walter, 254-55 Bergman, Ingmar, 190 Bergson, Henri-Louis, 43

Berry, John, 124

Bertolucci, Bernardo, 38, 203, 289n39 Best Picture category. See Academy Award pictures Betrayal, themes of, 76, 77, 90 Bezzerides, A. I., 27, 152 Bigelow, Kathryn, 223, 302n29 "Black cinema" (cinéma noir), 13, 246, 281n8 Black directors. See African-American directors Black, Lucas, 271, 272 The Black Curtain (Woolrich), 259 BlackMask journal, 49-50, 51, 225, 233 Black nationalism themes, 243-44, 246 Black-and-white film: aesthetic uses of, 171; expressive connotations of, 193;

John Alton on, 172-74, 301n8; as both realistic and stylish, 172-73; tonal qualities of, 174-75; ubiquity of, 169-70, 193; used instead of color, 154, 191.

See also Darkness, the central metaphor of; Lighting Black-art devices photography; 118-19 Blacklist, the:

allegorical film treatments of, 127-28;

careers changed by, 23, 130-32, 259;

and McCarthy-era Senate investigations, 105, 122, 123;

social realism films by leftists on, 124-30;

writers and directors, 21, 124, 125, 128, 131-32.

See also Censorship, motion-picture Blackness, white dreams about, 238-39 Blake, Robert, 274 "Blaxploitation" films, 192, 216 Blondeness, 3, 89, 91 (fig.), 199, 273 (fig.), 274 "Blood melodrama," 45, 48, 69, 110-11, 216 Blue-screen. See Cinematography techniques Boatman, Michael, 247 Bogart, Humphrey, 67, 103, 222, 230;

Bazin's eulogy for, 25-26;

and In a Lonely Place, 127-28, 228;

and The Maltese Falcon, 60, 61, 62 (fig.);

as noir hero, 20, 27, 28;

persona of, 25, 27

Bogdanovich, Peter, 32, 144, 159, 191, 219 Bogle, Thomas, 241, 306n23 Bookings. See Distribution systems Book-of-the-Month Club, 44, 64 Boorman, John, 191, 203 Boothe, Powers, 260

Borde, Raymond, 4, 18-22, 33, 40, 73, 100, 104, 168, 186, 199-200, 226, 275, 284n43 Borden, Lizzie, 223 Borders and boundaries: dissolution of art category, 38, 156; film-noir world of, 13, 220; with Latin America, 230, 233 Borges, Jorge Luis, 10 Borzage, Frank, 270 Bourgeois culture, opposition to, 18, 51

Boxing, films about, 19, 103, 158, 191,217 Box-office success, 32, 56, 62, 63, 138, 263, 267; top moneymakers, 297n7.

See also Distribution systems Boyer, Charles, 74 Boyle, Lara Flynn, 257 Bracho, Julio, 232 Brackett, Leigh, 204, 223, 303n36 Bradbury, Ray, 258 Bradley, David, 174 Brady, Frank, 239 Brantlinger, Patrick, 239 Brattle Theater (Cambridge, Mass.), 28 Breen, Joseph, 82, 92, 97, 101, 117; challenge to, 100 Breen Office, 16, 102; on The Blue Dahlia, 110, 111; on Crossfire, 117- 18; on Double Indemnity, 82, 92; objections to films noirs, 98-99, 126; report form, 97.

See also Censorship, motion-picture Breton, André, 1, 4, 18 The Brick Foxhole (Brooks), 114-15, 223;

Crossfire film based on, 114-23, 120 (fig.), 121 (fig.) Bridges, Lloyd, 126 Briggs, Joe Bob (pseud.), 161, 165 Brighton Rock (Greene), 70-72, 75-76 British Book Society, 64 British cinema, 15; films by blacklisted Americans, 131, 296n34; films by women, 223; Greene on, 68; noir remakes, 212; precursors of noir films, 15, 282n15 British literature: crime and spy fiction, 63; film criticism, 29, 30-31 British TV shows, 164, 260 Britton, Andrew, 148 Broadway musical revues, 200 Brodie, Steve, 121 Brody, Meredith, 187