Dames in the Driver's Seat: Rereading Film Noir

INDEX

INDEX Academy Awards, 55, 132, 158 Adorno, Theodor, 155, 156, 172n2 The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, 82 African Americans. See black culture; blacks in film noir Aftershocks of the New, 156 Aldrich, Robert, 64, 167n26 Alleva, Richard, 120, 122 America Day by Day, 39 American Beauty, 103 Amott, Teresa, 6, 58, 67 Anson, David, 83 architecture in film noir, 117, 124, 125 Armstrong, Louis, 34 Arthur, Paul, 131 Asians in film noir, 32, 111–112, 136–138. See also nonwhites in film noir; ‘‘otherness ’’ in film noir; race in film noir Astor, Mary, 153 The Atomic City, 64 Babe, 82 Bacall, Lauren, 69, 161n2, 167n24 Balázs, Béla, 7 Barlow, Joy, 1–2, 5 Basic Instinct, 5 Basinger, Kim, 6, 79, 80, 81, 83, 103, 110 Bauer, Eric, 146 Beauvoir, Simone de, 39 Benjamin, Walter, 155, 156, 172n2 Benton, Robert, 117 Bergan, Ronald, 133, 139 Bergman, Ingrid, 76, 78 The Best Years of Our Lives, 168n30 Between Men, 77 The Big Heat, 48, 96, 125, 165n8 The Big Sleep, 1–2, 5, 9, 40, 48, 143, 167n24 Black and White and Noir, 5, 58 black culture, 34, 58; familiarity with, as source of hipness for white male protagonist , 31–32, 41, 57–58, 66–68, 125; as marginalized criminal backdrop, 35, 82–83, 95 Black Magic, 135 blacks in film noir, 30–35, 79; in Fargo, 171n33; in Jackie Brown, 143, 144–145, 146–147; in The Killers, 45; in Kiss Me Deadly, 66–68; in Mulholland Falls, 95; in Out of the Past, 57–58. See also nonwhites in film noir; ‘‘otherness’’ in film noir; race in film noir blaxploitation films, 144–145 Blood Simple, 132 The Blue Dahlia, 48 B-movies, 5, 149 The Bodyguard, 153–154 Body Heat, 9, 17, 22–23, 25, 26 Bogart, Humphrey, 1, 33, 40, 48, 77, 78, 80, 124, 153, 161n2, 167n24 Bogle, Donald, 34 Bohne, Bruce, 133 Bonham Carter, Helena, 6, 102, 108, 110 Borde, Raymond, 7, 39, 40, 53, 54, 63, 65 Bound, 21 Bowen, Michael, 151 Boyz N the Hood, 34 Briggs, Joe Bob, 7 Build My Gallows High, 53 Burnett, Charles, 34 Burr, Ty, 97 Burwell, Carter, 131, 170n4 Buscemi, Steve, 130, 139 camera work in film noir, 3, 8, 14, 91, 121, 122 Carr, Marian, 69 Carter, Steven, 133, 136, 139–140 Casablanca, 9, 71, 75–89, 93, 122 A Certain Tendency in the Hollywood Cinema, 1930–1980, 77 Chafe, William, 2 Chandler, Raymond, 129, 161n1, 162n17, 170n1 Channing, Stockard, 117, 119 Chaumeton, Etienne, 7, 39, 40, 53, 54, 63, 65 Chinatown, 16, 83, 91, 92, 98, 162n18, 168n1 Christine, Virginia, 43 Christopher, Nicholas, 57 Cinema and Spectatorship, 30, 109 cinematography in film noir. See camera work in film noir Citizen Kane, 8 class in film noir, 29–30, 58; as conflated with race, 5, 76, 79; in Fight Club, 111; in Jackie Brown, 143, 149, 152–153, 154; middle, 32, 79, 89, 91, 96, 140, 158; revisionary treatment of, in neo-noir, 10, 157–159; reactionary treatment of, in retro-noir, 9, 88–89, 157–159; in Twilight , 117, 118, 123, 125; working, 2–3, 5, 20, 29, 30, 40, 47–48, 49, 50, 58, 79, 123, 143, 149, 152, 165n8 classic film noir, 96, 129, 131, 140, 148, 149, 153, 154, 155, 157, 161n9, 171n1; class in, 123, 157–158; definition of, 3; elements of, in Twilight, 117, 118, 121, 124; the femme fatale in, 2, 4, 6, 20, 23, 26– 27, 42, 52, 76, 112–113, 126; the homme fatal in, 4, 23, 52, 76; prototypes of, 8, 39–71; race in, 28, 30–35, 83, 102, 110, 137 Classical Film Violence, 64 Coen, Ethan and Joel, 129, 132, 135–136, 137, 171n46 The Coen Brothers, 131, 133 Cole, Nat King, 34, 67 Comfort, Madi, 67 Connelly, Jennifer, 6, 92 Cook, David, 149 Cool Men and the Second Sex, 35, 146 Cooper, Maxine, 69 Corliss, Richard, 145 Costner, Kevin, 135 Cracks in the Pedestal, 145 Crash, 103 crime films, 3, 13, 16, 21 criminality/crime in film noir, 40–41, 84, 97, 102, 132, 140; linked with masculinity , 141; and nonwhite characters, 79, 82, 83, 157; and the Production Code, 149; willingness of femmes fatales and hommes fatales to engage in, 51, 54, 104 Cripps, Thomas, 30 Cromwell, James, 82 Crowe, Russell, 80, 81, 82, 168n20 The Crying Game, 153 Cummins, Peggy, 165n8 Curtiz, Michael, 77 Dangerous Dames, 3, 76, 164n29, 165nn12, 15,18, 167n8 182 DAMES IN...