Glass Key, The (book),, 63

Golden Age mystery, 10

Goodis, David, 6, 133

Great Depression, 8–9, 37

Greek drama, 16, 146, 153–157, 159, 186

Greek poets, 146, 148–153, 157–159, 184–185

Greek tragedy, 153, 159

Hammett, Dashiell, 6–7, 9–10, 22–25, 59, 63–68, 77, 83, 88, 144, 174–176

Harvard University, 170–173, 187

Hawks, Howard, 94, 118

Hegel, G. W., 164–168, 185

Hemingway, Ernest, 9, 193

High Sierra (film),, 96, 122, 134, 144

Homer, 148, 150–151, 184–185

Huston, John, 7, 57, 75, 90, 127, 144

I Married a Dead Man (book),, 27, 31

Irrational Man (book),, 15

Jacoby, Russell, 181

Kafka, Franz, 14

Kant, Immanuel, 161, 165–166, 168, 171, 174, 185

Key Largo (film),, 124–127, 144

Kierkegaard, Soren, 14

Killers, The (film),, 20, 53–57, 75, 78

Killing, The (film),, 18, 107–111, 143

Kiss Me Deadly (film),, 11, 143

Kuklick, Bruce, 170–172

Lost Generation writers, 9

Maltese Falcon, The (book),, 1, 6–7, 23–25, 59, 63, 65–70, 74, 77, 83, 89–90, 145, 174

Maltese Falcon, The (film),, 4, 7, 11, 20, 58, 60, 75, 90–92, 127, 144, 189

McCoy, Horace, 6, 37–41

Merleau-Ponty, Maurice, 1

Modern Temper, The (book),, 9

Moral Collapse of the University, The (book),, 160–161

Motion Picture Production Code, 8, 119–120

Myth of Sisyphus, The (book),, 15

new realism, 161–164, 168, 170

Nietzsche, Friedrich, 14, 153

Odds Against Tomorrow (film),, 22, 100, 134–138

Oedipus the King (book),, 155–157, 159

Out of the Past (film),, 32

Panorama du Film Noir Americain (book),, 20, 22

Plato, 83–85

Porfirio, Robert, 5–7

Postman Always Rings Twice, The (book),, 6

professionalization of philosophy, 170–174, 179, 183, 185–188

Pulp Fiction (film),, 115, 143

Red Harvest (book),, 64, 88

The Rise of American Philosophy (book),, 170–172

Roaring Twenties, The (film),, 96, 121–123, 138

Sartre, Jean-Paul, 1–2, 5, 14–15, 146, 183