Cover -- Contents -- 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 -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.