The Dark Side of the Screen: Film Noir
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Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
Seven Days in May
Sexual obsession theme in film noir
Shadow of a Doubt
plot summary
quoted
Shane
Shaw, Captain Joseph T.
Shield for Murder
Shock Corridor
Shockproof
Shoeshine
Side Street
Expressionism in location film
Farley Granger in
money as temptation
noir set-piece
Cathy O’Donnell in
semi-documentary style
victim theme
Siegel, Don
film noir director
later work
The Silver Chalice
The Simple Art of Murder (Chandler, R.) quoted
Siodmak, Robert
compared with Fritz Lang
film noir directors
style characterized
Sister Carrie (Dreiser, T.)
Sleep, My Love
A Slight Case of Murder
Sloan, John
Sloane, Everett
Smart Set
Smith, Alexis
The Sniper
Social drama
in film noir
in gangster films
So Dark the Night
Sorry, Wrong Number
Burt Lancaster in
middle-class protagonist
Barbara Stanwyck in
treatment of time
weak man theme
Spade, Sam
character in The Maltese Falcon
Humphrey Bogart as
hard-boiled character
professional investigator
Spellbound
Spillane, Mickey
compared with Raymond Chandler
The Spiral Staircase
noir psychopath theme
quoted
Stanwyck, Barbara
as Phyllis Dietrichson in Double Indemnity
film noir actress
film partner to Bogart
in Double Indemnity
in The File on Thelma Jordan
in Jeopardy
in Sorry, Wrong Number
man-hating woman in film noir
The Steel Trap
narrative quoted
plot summary
Theresa Wright in
Sterling, Jan
Sternwood, General character in The Big Sleep
Stevens, George
Stevens, Mark
in The Dark Corner
Stewart, James
in Call Northside
in Rear Window
in Rope
Stewart, Paul
A Stolen Life
Storm Warning
The Stranger (Camus, A.)
analysis
hard-boiled novel
plot summary
The Stranger
noir set-piece
Strangers on a Train
as film noir
confinement theme
Farley Granger in
noir psychopath theme
surreal setting
violence theme
weak man theme
Street with No Name
city in
semi-documentary style
A Streetcar Named Desire
Sudden Danger
Sudden Fear
Joan Crawford in
middle-class protagonist
Jack Palance in
Sullivan, Francis L.
The Sun Also Rises (Hemingway, E.)
Sunset Boulevard
end of film noir
noir psychopath theme
social commentary
unique setting
voice-over narration
The Suspect
Swanson, Gloria
in Sunset Boulevard
Swede, the
character in The Killers
Sweet Smell of Success
Burt Lancaster in
plot summary
quoted
Symon, Julian
Talk About a Stranger
Taxi Driver
Taylor, Don
Tension
Terry character in The Dark Mirror
Thieves’ Highway
They Live By Night
Farley Granger in
Cathy O’Donnell in
plot summary
rural setting
They Shoot Horses Don’t They?
analysis
plot summary
The Thin Man (Hammett.)
The Third Man
surreal setting
The 3rd Voice
This Gun for Hire
Alan Ladd in
surreal setting
Tierney, Gene
in Laura
in Leave Her to Heaven
noir psychopath
To Catch a Thief
To Have and Have Not (Hemingway, E.)
To Have and Have Not Bogart and Bacall in
Toland, Gregg
Tomlin, Lily
Tomorrow Is Another Day
Too Late for Tears
Touch of Evil
characterized
compared with The Maltese Falcon
directed by Welles
genre’s epitaph
Charlton Heston in
late noir
noir psychopath theme
plot summary
setting
Tough guy code
Toward a Definition of the American Film Noir (Karimi, A.)
Towers, Constance
Travis character in Taxi Driver
Trevor, Claire
The Trial
Try and Get Me
Turner, Lana
in The Postman Always Rings Twice
noir psychopath
Twain, Mark
2001: A Space Odyssey
Udo
character in Kiss of Death
Umberto D.
Underworld USA (McArthur.)
quoted
Veda
character in Mildred Pierce
Vertigo
as film noir
Vickers, Martha
Victims in film noir
Visconti, Lucino
Wade, Eileen
character in The Long Goodbye
Walker, Robert
Walking Tall
Wallach, Eli
Walsh, Raoul
film noir director
gangster film director
Wanley, Professor
character in The Woman in the Window
The Warriors
Warshow, Robert
Warwick, Ruth
Wayne, David
Webb, Clifton
film noir character actor
in The Dark Corner
in Laura
Weegee
Welles, Orson
compared with Fritz Lang
directing Touch of Evil
film noir director
in The Third Man
in Touch of Evil
noir psychopath
noir world view in The Lady from Shanghai
visual styling in Touch of Evil
voice-over narrator
Wellman, William
Where Danger Lives
Where the Sidewalk Ends
Farley Granger in
weak man theme
White Heat
James Cagney in
criminal point of view
gangster film noir
noir set-piece
Whitman, Walt
Widmark, Richard
archetypal noir victim
film noir character actor
in Don’t Bother to Knock
in Kiss of Death
in No Way Out
in Night and the City
in Panic in the Streets
in Pickup on South Street
Wilde, Oscar
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Wilder, Billy
directing Double Indemnity
film noir director
Willis, Gordon
Wind Across the Everglades
The Window
city in
Expressionism in location film
terror theme
Windows
Windsor, Marie
Winner, Michael
Wise, Robert
Witch-hunt, Communist in film industry
Withers, Googie
Witness to Murder
The Woman in the Window
Joan Bennett in
classic noir piece
Lang film noir
manhunt theme
middle-class protagonist
money and sex theme
visual styling
wrong man theme
The Woman on Pier
The Woman on the Beach
Robert Ryan in
narrative quoted
plot summary
Woman on the Run
Women
in Chandler’s works
in film noir
Woolrich, Cornell
literary style analyzed
Wright, Teresa
in Shadow of a Doubt
Wrong man theme in film noir
The Wrong Man
as film noir
confinement theme
quoted
victim theme
Wyatt, Jane
in Pitfall
Young, Gig
Young, Robert
You Only Live Once
Zola, Émile
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