5 “Like a crazy nightmare”: Noirish Vampirism and Deviance in Bowery at Midnight

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Figures vii
4. Notes on Contributors ix
5. Wallace Fox, Chickasaw filmmaker xii
6. Introduction: Wallace Fox and the B Film 1
7. 1 Between Compliance and Resistance: Mapping the Careers of Wallace Fox and Nipo Strongheart in Early Hollywood 15
8. 2 Indian Agents and Indigenous Agency at Universal: Wild Beauty (1946) and Gun Town (1946) 42
9. 3 Neglected Western Traditions and Indigenous Cinema in the 1945–1946 Series Westerns of Wallace Fox 67
10. 4 The Corpse Vanishes and the Case of the Missing Brides 88
11. 5 “Like a crazy nightmare”: Noirish Vampirism and Deviance in Bowery at Midnight 105
12. 6 Voices and Vaults: Pillow of Death 116
13. 7 Wallace Fox and America’s “Career Girls” 131
14. 8 She Made Her Own Deadline: Fox’s Brenda Starr, Reporter 161
15. 9 Bathos in the Bowery 180
16. 10 Infernal Devices: Wallace Fox’s Aeroglobe, Cosmic Beam Annihilator, and the Pit of Everlasting Fire 207
17. 11 A Fox in the Wild: Ramar of the Jungle and the Crisis of Representation 235
18. Index 253