The Maltese Touch of Evil: Film Noir and Potential Criticism

Index

Index Abbott, Megan, xii, 277 “academy of chumps and suckers” noireme, 158–59 Adler, Luther, 267 agms, 262, 293n1 Agostini, Philippe, 274 Aldrich, Robert, 59, 193, 271 aleatory methods, 18, 22, 25 Alexander, Bryan, 292n4 Alice in Wonderland (Carroll), 255, 291n1 Alonzo, John A., 69, 266 Alton, John, 227, 231, 269, 282n17 Ames, Leon, 203 Anders, Glenn, 73, 271 Andrews, Dana, 125, 199, 205, 209, 272 anoulipism, 5, 22, 26, 30, 263 Arnaud, Noël, 279n2 A.R.T.A. (Atelier de Recherches et Techniques Avancées) Project, 262, 263 “artful and artless” noireme, 190–91 Asphalt Jungle, The (1950): “city and country” noireme in, 134–35; “city in ruins” noireme in, 76–77; “deadly nostalgia” noireme in, 248–49; filmography , 264; “imbalanced world” noireme in, 52–53; Mathews’s Algorithm applied to, 28–29; “players” noireme in, 168–69; podcastography, 278; staircase trope in, 245; “time and crime” noireme in, 184–85 “assembling the picture” noireme, 188–89 Astor, Mary, 181, 272 atmosphere, 125 auto-exegesis, 6, 32, 43, 44, 179, 187, 259, 281n11 automatism, 18, 19, 22, 23, 285n5 avant-garde, 23, 25 Avant-Garde Finds Andy Hardy, The (Ray), 22, 25 Bacall, Lauren, 251, 265 Badalucco, Michael, 272 Bale, Christian, 264 Ballard, Lucien, 270 Bande à part/Band of Outsiders (1964), 277 Barnett, Vince, 195, 270 Barrymore, Lionel, 225, 270 Barthes, Roland, 24, 26, 258–59 Basehart, Richard, 131, 189, 227, 231, 269, 280n8 Batman Begins (2005): filmography, 264–65; “Gotham cities” noireme in, 106–7; inclusion in this study, 9; podcastography, 278; “terror in the city” noireme in, 220–21 Baxter, Alan, 275 302 • Index Bening, Annette, 87, 268 Bens, Jacques, 11, 18, 279n2 Berge, Claude, 279n2 Bergman, Ingrid, 79, 273 Bezzerides, Albert Isaac, 219, 271 B films: constraints in, 33, 36, 39; Detour , 93; Eagle-Lion films, 231; He Walked by Night, 131, 189; inclusion in this study, 9; Murder, My Sweet, 83; Touch of Evil, 10 Biesen, Sheri Chinen, 7, 285n6, 287n4 Big Combo, The (1955), 9, 282n17 Big Lebowski, The (1998): “defective detective work” noireme in, 206–7; filmography, 265; hard-boiled source material of, 38–39; inclusion in this study, 9; “license to hallucinate” noireme in, 210–11; in Out of the Past podcast, 281n14; podcastography, 278; “that rug really tied the room together,” 45 Big Sleep, The (1946): “clean endings” noireme in, 250–51; filmography, 265; guide books weighted toward films like, 15; inclusion in this study, 9; “let him sweat” noireme in, 94–95; in Netflix database, 15–16; in Out of the Past podcast, 281n14; podcastography , 278; “rub of the ear” noireme in, 136–37 Biroc, Joseph F., 270 Black Dahlia, The (2006), 278, 281n14 blacklist, 61, 139, 171, 215 Blade Runner (1982): Batman Begins compared with, 107; “down to earth” noireme in, 80–81; filmography, 266; inclusion in this study, 9; “lie is in the eye” noireme in, 128–29; “looking back and looking ahead” noireme in, 110–11; podcastography, 278 “blind man’s view” noireme, 74–75 Blood Simple (1984), 289n16 “blowing up noir” noireme, 62–63 Blue Dahlia, The (1946), 277 Bob le Flambeur (1956), 277 Body Heat (1981), 277 Bogart, Humphrey: The Big Sleep, 95, 121, 137, 251, 265; The Maltese Falcon, 97, 113, 181, 272 Borde, Raymond, 12–14, 282n3 Bordwell, David, 39–41, 288n8 Borowitz, Katherine, 272 Bould, Marc, 7, 14 Brackett, Charles, 275 Brackett, Leigh, 265 Brady, Scott, 269 Braffort, Paul, 279n2, 293n1 Brando, Marlon, 177, 273 Breathless (1959), 139, 145 Bredell, Woody, 270 Breton, André, 19 Brick (2005), 277 Bridges, Jeff, 207, 211, 265 Britton, Pamela, 267 Brown, Phil, 117 budgetary constraints, 35–36 “bull outside the ring” noireme, 222–23 Burch, Noel, 8 Burnett, W. R., 264 Buscemi, Steve, 265 Bush, Niven, 274 Buss, Robin, 14 Cain, James M., 38, 85, 267, 274 Caine, Michael, 264 Calhern, Louis, 53, 169, 264, 273 Index • 303 Calleia, Joseph, 187, 223, 233, 276 Calvino, Italo, xvi, 23, 255, 262 Camby, Victor, 287n6 Camus, Albert, 117, 195 caper-heist films, 185 Capra, Frank, 269 carnivals, 215 Carroll, Lewis, 255, 291n1 “car trouble” noireme, 160–61 Caruso, Anthony, 169 Caspary, Vera, 272 “caught” noireme, 154–55 censorship, 34, 36, 115 Cent mille milliards de poèmes (Queneau ), 17–18, 19, 284n16, 293n15 Chandler, Raymond: The Big Sleep, 95, 121, 137, 251, 265; on circling around the traumatic event, 6; current films draw from, 38; Double Indemnity, 267; dream sequences in, 211; Murder , My Sweet...