Street with no name : a history of the classic American film noir 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