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by Mark Osteen


  Wieder, Robert, 275n4

  Wild Calendar (Block), 211, 284n46

  Wilde, Cornel, 137, 175, 182, 183

  Wilder, Billy, 13, 49, 132, 254

  Williams, Tony, 6, 29

  Wilson, Teddy, 156

  Wise, Robert, 172, 278–79nn26–27, 288n27

  Wolfert, Ira, 234

  Wolff, Maritta, 180

  Wollheim, Richard, 23

  Woman in the Window, The, 36, 106, 116–19, 266n19, 274nn14–18

  “woman’s film,” 187, 280n3

  women, 17, 89, 103, 112, 165, 185, 199, 217, 280n1

  and agency, 197, 199, 280n10

  attribution of evil to, 83–84, 195

  career, 196, 216

  commodification of, 170, 199

  and domesticity, 186, 188, 190

  and identity, 58–59, 115

  and marriage, 59, 60, 186–87, 191, 193, 195, 196, 203, 217

  and money, 62, 193

  and motherhood, 17, 149, 186, 187–88, 191, 214

  as nightclub singers, 179–80, 279n35

  as prisoners, 207–10

  and sexuality, 169, 197, 199, 201, 203, 214, 217

  working, 11, 17, 186, 189–91, 280n2. See also femme noir; gender roles

  women filmmakers, 17, 185, 218–19, 261

  as producers, 191–92

  as screenwriters, 58, 180, 187, 188, 192, 214

  women’s portraits. See portraiture films

  Woolrich, Cornell, 11, 49, 159, 165, 277n10

  The Black Path of Fear, 31

  I Married a Dead Man, 61, 62, 64, 268n13, 268n17

  World War II, 4, 5, 11, 20, 267n10

  writing, 39, 63

  Wyler, William, 77, 222–23, 270n7

  Young, Collier: and Lupino, 214, 215, 218, 285n52

  screenplays by, 145, 211, 272n30

  You Only Live Once, 136

  Zanuck, Darryl F., 9, 109, 228, 273nn8–9

  Zeitgeist theory, 12, 264n11

  Zinnemann, Fred, 97, 102, 103, 272n30

  Žižek, Slavoj, 118–19

 

 

 


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