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03386aam a22004098a 4500 001 904FB9CCB6DB11E2AF0A76A3DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20130507010107 008 120508s2013 mdua b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2012017652 020 $a 1421408325 (electronic) 020 $a 9781421408323 (electronic) 020 $a 1421407809 (hdbk. : alk. paper) 020 $a 9781421407807 (hdbk. : alk. paper) 035 $a (OCoLC)793379317 040 $a DLC $b eng $c DLC $d YDXCP $d BTCTA $d BWX $d CUT $d MUU $d SILO 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a PN1995.9.F54 $b O88 2013 082 00 $a 791.43/6556 $2 23 100 1 $a Osteen, Mark. 245 10 $a Nightmare alley : $b film noir and the American dream / $c Mark Osteen. 260 $a Baltimore : $b Johns Hopkins University Press, $c 2013. 300 $a viii, 324 p. : $b ill. ; $c 24 cm. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-309) and index. 520 $a "Desperate young lovers on the lam (They Live by Night), a cynical con man making a fortune as a mentalist (Nightmare Alley), a penniless pregnant girl mistaken for a wealthy heiress (No Man of Her Own), a wounded veteran who has forgotten his own name (Somewhere in the Night)--this gallery of film noir characters challenges the stereotypes of the wise-cracking detective and the alluring femme fatale. Despite their differences, they all have something in common: a belief in self-reinvention. Nightmare Alley is a thorough examination of how film noir disputes this notion at the heart of the American Dream. Central to many of these films, Mark Osteen argues, is the story of an individual trying, by dint of hard work and perseverance, to overcome his origins and achieve material success. In the wake of World War II, the noir genre tested the dream of upward mobility and the ideas of individualism, liberty, equality, and free enterprise that accompany it. Employing an impressive array of theoretical perspectives (including psychoanalysis, art history, feminism, and music theory) and combining close reading with original primary source research, Nightmare Alley proves both the diversity of classic noir and its potency. This provocative and wide-ranging study revises and refreshes our understanding of noir's characters, themes, and cultural significance."--Publisher's website. 505 0 $a 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. 650 0 $a Film noir $z United States $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Motion pictures $x History $z United States $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a American Dream in art. 650 0 $a National characteristics, American, in motion pictures. 941 $a 5 952 $l PLAX964 $d 20230718091039.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20171226045036.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20160826070709.0 952 $l UXAX826 $d 20150515015238.0 952 $l OIAX792 $d 20140917011419.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=904FB9CCB6DB11E2AF0A76A3DAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search