Mark Osteen is a professor of English, chair of the English Department, and founder of the Film Studies Program at Loyola University Maryland. He is the author of several books, most recently the memoir One of Us: A Family's Life with Autism.
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List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Film Noir and the American Dream 1. "Someone Else's Nightmare": Exploring Noir Dreamscapes 2. Missing Persons: Self-Erasure and Reinvention 3. Vet Noir: Masculinity, Memory, and Trauma 4. Framed: Forging Noir Identities 5. Noir's Cars: Automobility and Amoral Space 6. Nocturnes in Black and Blue: Memory, Morality,and Jazz Melody 7. Femmes Vital: Film Noir and Women's Work 8. Left-Handed Endeavor: Crime, Capitalism, and the Hollywood Left Conclusion: American Nightmares Notes Filmography Works Cited Index
Describes film noir as a genre that challenges the American mythology of upward mobility and self-reinvention. Chronicle of Higher Education Only a few of the many books on film noir are essential. This is one of them... A smart, clearly written book. Choice Osteen has given us a fresh, discerning, and nuanced perspective on a popular style of Hollywood films during the period 1940-1960 and has proved a reliable guide down the sinuous twistings of 'Nightmare Alley.' -- Louis J. Kern Key Reporter