American Window

Includes bibliographical references (p. [283]-289) and index.

Machine generated contents note: 1. THE NOIR IN AMERICA 60 -- The Noir City 62 -- Archetypes-Protagonists 65 -- Abraham Polonsky 70 -- Jules Dassin 75 -- Nicholas Ray 82 -- Orson Welles 88 -- 2. THE HARD-BOILED FICTION INFLUENCE 96 -- Cornell Woolrich 99 -- The Private Detective 103 -- Humphrey Bogart, Spade, Marlowe, -- and the Film Noir 109 -- The Gangster Figure and the Noir 112 -- John Huston 115 -- Violence in the Noir 121 -- Samuel Fuller 125 -- Robert Aldrich 130 -- Don Siegel 137 -- Sexuality in the Noir 142 -- Families in the Noir 146 -- Joseph H. Lewis 151 -- 3. WOMEN AS SEEN IN THE FILM NOIR 156 -- Otto Preminger 164 -- 4. NOIR PRODUCTION 172 -- Noir Iconography 173 -- The Use of Voice-Over Narration 177 -- The Flashback Device 179 -- Amnesia as a Storytelling Device 182 -- The B Noir Production 184 -- Documentary Realism in the Noir 187 -- Critical and Popular Reception of the Film Noir 191 -- HUAC and the Blacklist 194 -- Fight Pictures 197 -- Caper Films 200 -- Crime Syndicate Expos6s 202 -- The Kefauver Crime Hearings 203 -- Anthony Mann 206 -- Phil Karlson 213 -- 5. THE NOIR INFLUENCE ON THE FRENCH NEW WAVE 222 -- Jean-Pierre Melville 228.