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WORKS CITED

Agee, James. "Films: Double Indemnity." The Nation, October 14, 1944, 415. Contemporary review of the film.

Agee, James. "Films: It's a Wonderful Life." The Nation, February 15, 1947, 193. Contemporary review of the film.

Belton, John, ed. Movies and Mass Culture. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1996.

Bernal, J.D. "Everybody's Atom." The Nation, September 1, 1945, 201-204.

Borde, Raymonde and Etienne Chaumeton. "Toward the Definition of Film Noir," excerpt from Panorama du film noir american (Paris: Editions de Minuit, 1955), 5-15, translated by R. Barton Palmer, in Perspectives on Film Noir, R. Barton Palmer, ed. Perspectives on Film series. New York: G.K. Hall & Co., Imprint of Simon & Schuster Macmillan, 1996.

Boyer, Paul. By the Bomb's Early Light: American Thought and Culture at the Dawn of the Atomic Age. New York: Pantheon Books, division of Random House, 1985.

"Capra's Christmas Carol: It's a Wonderful Life." Newsweek, December 30, 1946, 73. Contemporary review of the film.

Christopher, Nicholas. Somewhere in the Night: Film Noir and the American City. New York: The Free Press, Division of Simon & Schuster, 1997.

Farber, Manny. "Hard-as-Nails Department: Double Indemnity." The New Republic, July 24, 1944, 103. Contemporary review of the film.

Farber, Manny. "The Hero." The New Republic, October 18, 1943, 521.

Ferguson, Otis. "Some Pictures Move: The Maltese Falcon." The New Republic, October 20, 1941, 508. Contemporary review of the film.

Frank, Nino. "The Crime Adventure Story: A New Kind of Detective Film." Originally published in L'Ecran Francais 61 (August 28, 1946); 8-9, 14, translated by R. Barton Palmer, in Perspectives on Film Noir, R. Barton Palmer, ed. Perspectives on Film series. New York: G.K. Hall & Co., Imprint of Simon & Schuster Macmillan, 1996.

Gregory, Charles. "Living Life Sideways." Originally published in Journal of Popular Film 5, no. 314 (1976): 289-311. In Perspectives on Film Noir, R. Barton Palmer, ed. Perspectives on Film series. New York: G.K. Hall & Co., Imprint of Simon & Schuster Macmillan, 1996.

Hartung, Philip T. "The Maltese Falcon." The Commonweal, October 17, 1941, 614. Contemporary review of the film.

Hartung, Philip T. "Foreign and Strange Places: Casablanca." The Commonweal, December 11, 1942, 209. Contemporary review of the film.

Hartung, Philip T. "Simply Thrilling: Notorious, The Big Sleep, Black Angel." The Commonweal, September 6, 1946, 504. Contemporary review of the films.

Hartung, Philip T. "Stoops to Folly: The Dark Mirror, Deception, Mr. Ace." The Commonweal, November 1, 1946, 71. Contemporary review of the film.

Hartung, Philip T. "Violence with a Vehemence: The Blue Dahlia." The Commonweal, May 24, 1946, 143-144. Contemporary review of the film.

Levy, Emanuel. Small-Town America in Film: The Decline and Fall of Community. New York: Continuum Publishing Company, 1991.

Marling, William. The American Roman Noir: Hammett, Cain, and Chandler. Athens, GA: The University of Georgia Press, 1995.

May, Elaine T. "Rosie the Riveter Gets Married" in The War in American Culture: Society and Consciousness During World War II. Lewis A. Erenberg and Susan E. Hirsch, ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996.

Naremore, James. More than Night: Film Noir in Its Contexts. Berkley and Los Angeles. University of California Press, 1998.

Niebuhr, Reinhold. "A Faith to Live By: The Dilemma of Modern Man." The Nation, February 22, 1947, 205-209.

Neve, Brian. Film and Politics in America: A Social Tradition. London: Routledge, 1992.

"Oak Ridge: Life Where the Bomb Begins." Newsweek, August 5, 1946, 32.

Palmer, R. Barton, ed. Perspectives on Film Noir. Perspectives on Film series. New York: G.K. Hall & Co., Imprint of Simon & Schuster Macmillan, 1996.

Place, Janey and Lowell Peterson. "Some Visual Motifs of Film Noir (1974)" in Film Noir Reader, Alain Silver and James Ursini, ed. New York: Proscenium Publishers, 1996, 1997, Fourth Limelight Edition, February, 1998.

Pratt, Ray. Projecting Paranoia: Conspiratorial Visions in American Film. Lawrence, KS: University of Kansas Press, 2001.

Quart, Leonard and Albert Auster. American Film and Society since 1945, 3d ed. Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 2002.

Schrader, Paul. "Notes on Film Noir (1972)" in Film Noir Reader, Alain Silver and James Ursini, ed. New York: Proscenium Publishers, 1996, 1997, Fourth Limelight Edition, February, 1998.

Shindler, Colin. Hollywood Goes to War: Films and American Society 1939-1952. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1979.

Silver, Alain and James Ursini, ed. Film Noir Reader. New York: Proscenium Publishers, 1996, 1997, Fourth Limelight Edition, February, 1998.

Sklar, Robert. Movie-Made America: A Cultural History of American Movies, rev. and updated. New York: Random House, 1975; New York: Vintage Books Edition, December 1994.

Tuska, Jon. Dark Cinema: American Film Noir in Cultural Perspective. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1984.

Tuttle, William R. Daddy's Gone to War: The Second World War in the Lives of America's Children. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.

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