More Than Night: Film Noir in Its Contexts

scenes: censorship of, 97, 117; provocative, 101.

See also Alcoholism themes 'Drive-in' entertainment, 161, 165 Drug culture, 218- 19, 233, 244

DTVs (direct-to-video productions), 38, 161-63, 164-65; major-studio imitations of, 162 Dubois, Marie, 202 Duff, Howard, 259 Duhamel, Marcel, 17, 19, 236 Dullea, Keir, 292n67

Dunaway Faye, 206-10 passim, 209 (fig.), 303n37

Durgnat, Raymond, 6, 29, 30-31

Duvall, Robert, 272

Dwan, Alan, 189

Dwyer, Marlo, 118

E

Eagle-Lion Company, 142

Eastmancolor, 186

Eastwood, Clint, 277

Edeson, Arthur, 60-61

Edwards, Blake, 260-61

Edwards, Vince, 158-59 (fig.), 299n24

Egoyan, Atom, 267

Eliot, T. S.:

anti-Semitism of, 65, 289n37;

influence on Greene, 65, 69-70;

The Waste Land by, 35, 44, 53, 66, 285n48, 289n37 Elliot, Allison, 268-70, 269 (fig.)

Ellipsis, use of, 99 Ellison, Ralph, 253 Ellroy, James, 275

Emigres. See Exiles and emigres, European Endfield, Cyril, 124, 126-27, 131, 143, 259 Entertainment Comics (EC), 258-59 Erdoty, Leo, 147 Erotic thrillers, 156-59, 162 Eroticism, noir, 18, 73, 101, 263; and masculine control, 221; masochistic, 242, 304n2; and 'mystery lighting,' 182, 184-85 (figs.); of violence, 20, 22, 30, 283n28.

See also Pornography, themes of; Sexuality

Ethnic groups. See 'Others'; names of specific ethnic and minority groups European art films, 267;

American directors of, 130-31; black-and-white, 190; box-office success of, 32; in color, 190-91; directors of, 38, 45, 202, 207;

English-language thrillers, 203, 207-8; influence on Hollywood, 45; renaissance of, 203 Evil:

censor-required punishment of, 98, 113, 128; of modernity, 35;

speech against, 101

Evil characters. See Femmes fatales; Sadism; Villains Exhibitors. See Distribution systems; Theaters Exiles and emigres, European, 261; in Los Angeles, 41, 144, 286n8 Existentialism, literary, 17, 33, 236; influence on French film criticism, 22-23 Exotic, the. See Asian themes and characters; Latin America Exploitation films, 144; allusions to, 216-17;

'blaxploitation,' 192, 216.

See also Pornography, themes of Expressionism, 33, 192; abstract, 171;

during interwar years, 47, 287n14; and neoexpressionism, 36-37

F

Failure themes, 125, 268-70

'Family tree' of film noir, Durgnat's, 6, 30-31

Far Eastern settings. See Asian themes and characters

Farber, Manny, 17, 18, 32, 137, 139, 282n21

Farrow, John, 32, 168

Fascism, 102, 103, 105, 115, 122 Fashion, 74, 168, 197-98, 214, 216, 275 Fassbinder, Rainer, 38, 202 Fatalism, 34, 83; of the Left in Hollywood, 130 Faulkner, William, 9, 12, 41, 270, 293n6;

Sartre on, 23, 24 Favorite movies:

America's all-time, 297n7; the author's early, 3;

box-office success of, 32, 56, 62, 63, 138, 263, 267 Fay, Alice, 23 Fear:

of communism, 123, 133; of ordinary life, 65, 268; of women, 89, 133, 182.

See also Violence Fearing, Kenneth, 104 Fellini, Federico, 190

''Feminine' culture, modernist opposition to, 43-44, 89 Feminist film criticism, 12, 211, 221, 280n7; journals, 18, 19, 21, 22, 29, 66, 136

Femmes fatales, 9, 20, 115, 133, 144, 149, 151, 182, 221, 226, 233, 251, 263, 264,

265, 274, 283n27, 305n14;

costumes of, 89, 91 (fig.), 199 (fig.).

See also Costumes, women's; Heroines and protagonists

Fenn, Sherilyn, 197

Fetishization:

of bygone images, 254-55; themes, 101, 264, 274.

See also Costumes, men's; Costumes, women's; Props Fichtner, William, 268, 269 (fig.)

Figgis, Mike, 247

Film critics, 29, 32, 137, 142, 143, 161, 201, 261 Film festivals, noir, 28 Film gris, the term, 124

Film Noir: An Encyclopedia of the American Style (Silver and Ward), 9-10, 103, 261 Film noir, the term, 2, 4, 6, 9-11, 15, 26, 137, 285n50 Filmographies, noir: encyclopedic, 9-10, 280n3; unusual inclusions in, 31 Films and Filming journal, 29 Films noirs, titles of. See Film and Broadcast Index Fiorentino, Linda, 165 First-run pictures: and 'B' pictures, 140-41; versus DTVs, 38, 161-63, 164-65 Fishburne, Larry, 246 Flashback narration, 17, 92, 133;

'lying,' 116 Fletcher, Lucille, 259 Foley, James, 160 Ford, Ford Maddox, 43, 52 Ford, John, 141 Ford, John (dramatist), 70 Fordism, 88.

See also Mass production; Taylorism Foreign pictures. See European art films

Formulas. See Conventions, film-noir; Visual traits of film noir Foster, Norman, 225 Foucault, Michel, 11 France:

left-wing community in, 15, 23-24; postwar eras in, 13, 155.

See also French intellectual culture Frank, Nino, 15-16, 17, 18, 41 Frankenheimer, John, 132-35 passim, 160, 296n36 Franklin, Carl, 246, 249-53 Frears, Stephen, 160 Frederick's of Hollywood, 197 Freeling, Fritz, 199 French cinema, 45, 70;

Americanization of, 15, 281n11; by blacklisted Americans, 296n34;

Greene on, 68-69 French film culture: postwar, 13, 155;

postwar writings on film noir, 13, 15-16, 17-18, 25, 138 French intellectual culture, 256; existentialism in, 22 -23, 236; and politics, 284n36; surrealism in, 17-18

Freud, Sigmund, 9, 31, 43, 148, 206, 287n16 Freudian themes, 9, 31, 133, 148, 206, 287n16 Freund, Karl, 190

Friendship, male, 53, 77, 79, 86, 89-90, 217 (fig.), 221-22, 241-42 Front and Center (Houseman), 107-8

Frutkoff, Gary, 250

Fuchs, Daniel, 104, 126

Fujimoto, Tak, 252

Fuller, Samuel, 30, 143, 226, 228

Furst, Anton, 257