Adventures of Robin Hood, The (film),, 101

Aeschylus, 153–154, 186

Agamemnon (book),, 154, 156

Ajax (book),, 154, 156, 159

American dream and noir, 8, 87, 116

American Philosophical Association, 160–161, 170–173, 185, 187

Angels with Dirty Faces (film),, 95–96, 121–123, 138

Apology (book),, 150–151, 159, 189

Asphalt Jungle, The (film),, 12, 26, 33, 102, 105–109, 143

Barrett, William, 15

Big Sleep, The (book),, 6, 92–94

Big Sleep, The (film),, 12, 20–22, 118

Black Mask, 10, 87, 174–176, 187, 189

Brute Force (film),, 44, 46, 49

Cain, James M., 6–7

Camus, Albert, 1–2, 5–6, 14–15, 146, 183

Casablanca (film),, 123–124, 144

Chandler, Raymond, 6–7, 9–10, 12, 22, 86–87, 89, 92–94, 158, 176–178

Challenge of Existentialism, The (book),, 14

Chinatown (film),, 19, 21, 53, 70, 74–75, 79–80, 186–187

Citizen Kane (film),, 54, 144

Cotkin, George, 9

Criss Cross (film),, 28, 30, 69, 100

critical realism, 168–169

Daly, Carroll John, 88, 175

Dark Cinema (book),, 20

Dark Passage (book),, 133

Dark Passage (film),, 60, 62–63, 78

de Beauvoir, Simone, 1, 146, 183

Dead End (film),, 121–123

Descartes, Rene, 61–62

Detour (film),, 11–12

Dewey, John, 16

Dialectic of Enlightenment (book),, 115–119, 133, 142–144

Dogmatic Wisdom (book),, 181

Dostoevsky, Fyodor, 14

Double Indemnity (film),, 7, 12, 20–21, 32–33, 100, 116, 134

Dumenil, Lynn, 9

european philosophy and film noir, 2–5, 7, 14–16

Euthyphro (book),, 147

Existential America (book),, 9

existentialism defined, 14–18

film noir defined, 18–21

Film Noir Guide: 745 Films of the Classic Era (1940–1959) (book),, 20

Film Noir: An Encyclopedic Reference to the American Style (book),, 19

French critics and film noir, 20

gangster films, 95–97, 119–121, 132, 138

german Idealism, 165–168