One only has to take a look at the chapter headings by Thomas Brandlmeier to understand what the film noir is made of: “Changed gender roles, loss of American innocence, amnesia and post-war shock, schizophrenia in marriage and love, moral ambiguity, anti-social and defeatist tendencies, paranoia, alienation and claustrophobia, Oedipus and Electra, psychosomatic motives, fetishism, […]