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235 Abbott, Bud, 87 Abbott and Costello Go to Mars (Charles Lamont, 1953), 9, 87 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, 197; Academy Awards, 157, 194, 196, 197. See also Oscar Acocella, Joan, 153 “Adagio in G Minor” (Tomaso Albinoni), 43 Adams, Casey, 62 Adventurs of Pinocchio, The (Carlo Collodi), 210 Afghanistan, 1989 political struggle in, 176 A.I. Artificial Intelligence (Steven Spielberg, 2001), 13, 209–22, 212, 214, 216 Aiken, Liam, 166, 173 Aldiss, Brian, 217 Allen, Woody, 145 Allied Artists, 79 al-Qaeda, 201, 201 Altman, Rick, 70, 72 Altman, Robert, 153 Amazing Criswell, The (Jeron Criswell King), 84, 89 American Ballet Theatre, 161n4 American Beauty (Sam Mendes, 1999), 211 American independent (indie) film, 165, 166 American International Pictures (AIP), 9, 79, 81, 89 American West, 72, 95 Andersen, Hans Christian, 148 Andersson, Harriet, 55 Andrews, David, 174 Annie Hall (Woody Allen, 1977), 2 Ansen, David, 195, 197 Apatow, Judd, 2 Apte, Mahadev, 154 Aristotle, 75, 80, 83, 180 Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth (Grant Morrison and Dave McKean), 197 Arnold, Gary, 90 Aronofsky, Darren, 146, 151, 152, 153, 160, 161n3 Artforum, 99 Artaud, Antonin, 108 Asphalt Jungle, The (John Huston, 1950), 184 Astaire, Fred, 129 Asther, Nils, 22 Astor, Mary, 139, 140 Auschwitz, 47 Austin Chronicle, 194 Autocrat of the Breakfast Table, The (Oliver Wendell Holmes), 128 Baba Yaga, 107 Babette’s Feast (Gabriel Axel, 1987), 211 Bacall, Lauren, 68, 69 Backfire (Vincent Sherman, 1950), 63 Baclanova, Olga, 28 Bacon, Francis, 107, 108 Bakhtin, Mikhail, 32, 33, 35, 45, 68, 102, 108, 165, 169, 170, 171, 174 Baldwin, Alec, 2 Bale, Christian, 193 Bancroft, Anne, 130, 151 Bankhead, Tallulah, 5 Barber, C. L., 68 Barclay, Michael, 51 Bardem, Javier, 195 Barrymore, John, 2 Bataille, Georges, 33 “Batman” (1966), 194 Index 236 Index Batman (Tim Burton, 1989), 194, 195 Batman & Robin (Joel Schumacher, 1997), 205 Batman Begins (Christopher Nolan, 2005), 193, 202 Batman Forever (Joel Schumacher, 1995), 205 Batman: The Dark Knight. See The Dark Knight Batman: Year One (Frank Millera and David Mazzucchelli), 197 Battlefield Earth (Roger Christian, 2000), 9, 89–90, 90 Baucom, Bill, 138 Baxter, Keith, 43 Bazin, André, 3, 4 Beatty, Warren, 131 Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla (William Beaudine, 1952), 88 Bennett, Richard, 38 Berberian, Cathy, 132 Bergman, Ingrid, 3 Bergson, Henri, 14, 33, 34, 35, 99, 105, 128, 157, 158, 160, 180–81, 215–16 Berio, Luciano, 132 Berman, Shelley, 132 Berth Marks (Lewis R. Foster, 1929), 105, 106 Big Sleep, The (Raymond Chandler), 65, 68, 71 Big Sleep, The (Howard Hawks, 1946), 62, 68, 69 Big Steal, The (Don Siegel, 1948), 62 Billig, Michael, 80 Billy Elliot (Stephen Daldry, 2000), 152 Birds, The (Alfred Hitchcock, 1963), 40 Blackmail (Alfred Hitchcock, 1929), 4 Black Swan (Darren Aronofsky, 2010), 11, 145–60, 149, 155, 159, 160n1, 161n2, 161n3, 161n5, 161n6 Blade Runner (Ridley Scott, 1982), 218 Blogcritics, 197 Blood Simple (Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, 1984), 9, 64, 64 Bobos in Paradise (David Brooks), 174 Body and Soul (Robert Rossen, 1947), 62 Bogart, Humphrey, 3, 69, 71, 131, 139, 140, 182, 183 Bonnie & Clyde (Arthur Penn, 1967), 131 Book of Eli, The (The Hughes Brothers, 2010), 90 Borde, Raymond, 59, 60, 62, 69 Bordwell, David, 75, 76 Born to Kill (Robert Wise, 1947), 131 Born Yesterday (George Cukor, 1950), 2, 130–31 Boswell, Peter, 94, 97 Bouglione Circus troupe, 55 Bourne, Matthew, 152 Bowen, Elizabeth, 153 Box office, 79 Brando, Marlon, 141, 141 Brenon, Herbert, 24 Bride Wore Black, The (Cornell Woolrich), 65 Broderick, Helen, 129 Brooks, David, 174 Brother Orchid (Lloyd Bacon, 1940), 131 Brothers Grimm, the (Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm), 54 Brown, Jeffrey A., 205 Brown, Joe E., 2 Browne, Leslie, 155 Bud Abbott Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein (Charles Barton, 1948), 9, 87, 88 Build My Gallows High (Geoffrey Homes), 66 Bukowski, Charles, 165 Burckhardt, Rudy, 98 Burt, Richard, 197 Burton, Tim, 195 Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, The (Robert Wiene, 1920), 29 Cable Guy, The (Ben Stiller, 1996), 2 Cagney, James, 11, 131, 136, 139 Caillois, Roger, 2 Caine, Michael, 201 Cameo Cinema (Edinburgh), 164 Camp, Mary E., 196 Camp, style and sensibility, 144, 146, 149, 150, 152 Campbell, Neve, 152, 153 Canby, Vincent, 121 Canetti, Elias, 32, 33, 34, 35 Cannes Festival (Le Festival International du Film de Cannes), 58, 166; Best Screenplay Award, 166; Palme d’Or, 166 Capone, Al, 137, 138 Capra, Frank, 192 Carlyle, Thomas, 32 Carrey, Jim, 2 Carroll, Noël, 6, 80 Carson, Johnny, 31 Casablanca (Michael Curtiz, 1942), 3 Casanova (Giacomo...

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