Detecting Men: Masculinity and the Hollywood Detective Film

INDEX

I N D E X Absolute Power (1997), 184–85 Accused, The (1988), 219 Affleck, Ben, 41, 147, 222–23, 298n4 African Americans: and class, 213–15; containment of, 194, 210, 215–16; detective, 24, 81, 136–39, 189–216, 296–97n1; feminization of, 207–9; and interracial relationships, 194, 211; and isolation, 213–16; and physical action, 207–9; and sexuality, 193–94, 207–8, 210. See also under audience; criminalist Agatha Christie’s Poirot (TV), 13 age, 27, 218. See also youth hero. See under detective-hero AIDS, 108–12, 162 Along Came a Spider (2001), 20, 298n7 Altman, Rick, 8, 12, 21, 96, 102, 289n12, 292n4 American Beauty (1999), 46, 49 American Psycho (2000), 46, 47, 159 Anatomy of a Murder (1959), 92 Angel Heart (1987), 99 anti-detective story. See metaphysical detective story Asian detective, 70, 76–81, 296–97n1; and action, 79; and class, 81; and “yellow-face,” 77, 78–79 audience: African-American, 194, 196, 197, 200, 215, 216, 223, 296–97n1, 298n6 (chap. 7); alignment, 9, 12, 15, 16, 20, 22, 65, 69, 75, 164, 172, 194, 201, 215, 216, 226, 273, 281; expectations , 12, 16–17, 19, 37, 70, 82, 90, 113, 146, 172, 178, 240, 259, 263, 264, 268, 291n10, 299n3; female, 5, 38, 39–40, 43–44, 95, 229, 288n7, 298n6; heterosexual male, 38, 40, 133; homosexual male, 38, 39–40; participation, 12, 61, 170, 267; pleasure, 11, 12, 15, 37, 39–40, 48, 65, 84, 88, 122, 144, 163, 164, 166, 167, 170–71, 250, 251, 268, 271, 273, 299n10; popularity with, 7, 12, 16, 21, 48, 49, 58, 71, 76, 79, 91, 95, 112, 123, 133, 183, 229, 243, 248, 273, 288–89n10, 289n13, 296–67n1; relevance to, 8, 21, 91, 120, 122, 150, 163, 200, 216, 226, 268–69; white, 193, 194, 197, 200, 210, 215, 216, 223 B-detective film series, 69–81 backlash, masculine, 44–50, 101, 108, 187–88 Barkin, Ellen, 117–19 Basic Instinct (1992), 99, 107–8, 110, 115–17, 120, 135, 251, 299n10 Beach, The (2000), 46, 47 Best Years of Our Lives, The (1946), 83 Beverly Hills Cop (1984), 137, 191, 214–15, 216 Beverly Hills Cop II (1987), 215 337 Big Clock, The (1948), 10 Big Easy, The (1986), 96 Big Sleep, The (1946), 10, 67, 86, 96, 98, 111, 133, 292n15 biracial buddy film, 136–39, 195–96, 199–209, 213, 216 black independent cinema, 194, 210, 297–98n2 Black Mask, 66–67 Blade Runner (1982), 99, 102–4 Blaxploitation film, 196–97 Blind Justice (TV), 181 Blood Work (2002), 23, 165, 185–87, 234, 284 Blue Dahlia, The (1946), 10 Blue Steel (1990), 226–27, 233 body. See criminal body; female body; hard body; male body; soft body Body Heat (1981), 99, 102, 104–8, 120, 293n6 Bogart, Humphrey, 3, 16, 34, 72, 86, 87, 98, 121–22, 197, 211, 255, 292n15 Bond, James, 12, 75, 197 Bone Collector, The (1999), 20, 158, 159, 161, 181, 205, 208–9, 218, 234, 239, 242, 258 Boondock Saints, The (1999), 289n11 Bound (1996), 108, 120, 251, 299n10 buddy film, 134, 135, 139, 140, 149, 158, 187, 292n4, 296–97n1. See also biracial buddy film Bullitt (1968), 126 Bullock, Sandra, 180, 230, 234, 237–39, 242, 243–48 Butler, Judith, 35, 36–37, 43, 289n1 Cagney and Lacey (TV), 217, 298n1 Call Northside 777 (1948), 90 Canary Murder Case, The (1929), 73 Catch Me if You Can (2002), 250–51 censorship. See Production Code Chamber, The (1996), 222 Chan, Charlie, 60, 70, 76–81, 91, 291n9, 296n1 Chan, Jackie, 296–97n1 Chandler, Raymond, 5, 67, 69, 86, 96, 211 Charles, Nick, 23, 70, 72, 73, 74, 76, 291n9 Charlie Chan at the Circus (1936), 78 Charlie Chan at the Opera (1937), 91 Charlie’s Angels films (2000, 2003), 228, 229, 231, 243, 244, 299n8 Chinatown (1974), 96, 97, 98, 179 Chinese Parrot, The (1927), 60 Christie, Agatha, 3, 13, 63, 90, 71, 290n2, 290n3 Citizen Kane (1941), 12 Citizen X (1995), 159, 160 civil rights movement, 96, 133, 136, 196, 199, 257 class: middle, 5, 65, 66, 81, 88, 112–14, 133, 135–36, 146, 158, 163, 188, 194, 214, 216, 221; upper, 23, 31, 33, 62, 64–65, 81, 88, 110, 214, 256; working, 24, 31, 33, 56, 62, 65, 81, 88, 133, 134, 135–36, 137, 146, 151, 158, 214, 221, 296–97n1 Class Action (1991), 219 classical detective fiction, 11, 13–14, 15, 16, 20, 55, 56...