Nightmare Alley Film Noir and the American Dream

Name: Nightmare Alley Film Noir and the American Dream
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ISBN: 9781421413884

ISBN-10: 1421413884

ISBN-13: 9781421413884

Edition: 2013

Authors: Mark Osteen

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Desperate young lovers on the lam ( They Live by Night), a cynical con man making a fortune as a mentalist ( Nightmare Alley), a penniless pregnant girl mistaken for a wealthy heiress ( No Man of Her Own), a wounded veteran who has forgotten his own name ( Somewhere in the Night)—this gallery of film noir characters challenges the stereotypes of the wise-cracking detective and the alluring femme fatale. Despite their differences, they all have something in common: a belief in self-reinvention. Nightmare Alley is a thorough examination of how film noir disputes this notion at the heart of the American Dream.Central to many of these films, Mark Osteen argues, is the story of an individual…

Book details

List price: $29.00
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication date: 1/24/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 7.44" wide x 8.94" long x 0.97" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English