Nightmare Alley

  • Nightmare Alley: Film Noir and the American Dream
    By Mark Osteen

    Both forms of female labor, then, seem poisonous in Mildred Pierce. At the conclusion Mildred is back with Bert, and as they walk from the police station, they pass two cleaning women on their knees— images of a woman's proper place, ...

  • Nightmare Alley
    By William Lindsay Gresham

    Nightmare Alley begins with an extraordinary description of a carnival-show geek—alcoholic and abject and the object of the voyeuristic crowd’s gleeful disgust and derision—going about his work at a county fair.

  • Nightmare Alley
    By William Lindsay Gresham

    Now a major motion picture from Academy Award–winning director Guillermo del Toro and starring Bradley Cooper, Cate Blanchett, Rooney Mara, and Toni Collette Nominated for 4 Oscars, including Best Picture Nightmare Alley begins with an ...

  • Nightmare Alley
    By William Lindsay Gresham

    Stanton Carlisle, employed as a carny at a travelling circus watches their freak-show geek - an abject alcoholic, the object of the voyeuristic crowd's gleeful disgust and derision - and...

  • Nightmare Alley: Film Noir and the American Dream
    By Mark Osteen

    This provocative and wide-ranging study revises and refreshes our understanding of noir's characters, themes, and cultural significance. "Only a few of the many books on film noir are essential. This is one of them . . .