“…Big sleep (Motion picture : 1946)…”
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“…Big sleep…”

Table of Contents: “…Side A: The big sleep (1946) -- Side B: The big sleep (1945).…”

“…Big sleep.…”

Table of Contents: “…Framing Caesar in Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep --…”
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Table of Contents: “…Pulp stories -- The big sleep -- Farewell, my lovely -- The high window.…”

Table of Contents: “…Big bang, big sleep, big problem -- Eternity conceived -- Eternity overflowing -- Eternity reformed -- From eternity to five-year plans -- Not here, not now, not ever.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Authors, actors, adaptations -- Hawks, Chandler, Bogart, Bacall: The big sleep -- Uptown folk: blackness and entertainment in Cabin in the sky -- Hitchcock and humor -- Hitchcock at the margins of noir -- Spies and lovers: North by Northwest -- Welles, Hollywood, and Heart of darkness -- Orson Welles and movie acting -- Welles and Kubrick: two forms of exile -- The treasure of the Sierra Madre -- The return of the dead -- Part 3. …”

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Table of Contents: “…Cannibal movies and vorarephilia -- Shuddersome sex in the movies: attracted to the big sleep/stillness of death: necrophilia and somnophilia -- Conclusion: better living through horror.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Pudovkin -- A dream of passion : the development of the method / Lee Strasberg -- The training of the actor / Lev Kuleshov -- Short description of a new technique of acting which produces an alienation effect / Bertolt Brecht -- Notes on the cinematographer / Robert Bresson -- Generous stars / Charles Affron -- The performance frame / James Naremore -- Genre and performance : an overview / Richard deCordova -- Articulating stardom / Barry King -- Film acting and independent cinema / Andrew Higson -- Shirley Temple and the house of Rockefeller / Charles Eckert -- Kinesics and film acting : Humphrey Bogart in The maltese falcon and The big sleep / Virgina Wright Wexman…”

Table of Contents: “…Essays: Prolonging the life of Moses: from spectacle to story in the early cinema / David Shepherd -- The big sleep: Strategic ambuguity in Judges 4-5 and in Classic film noir / Eric S. …”

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface: Billy Wilder Speaking; Acknowledgments; Chronology; Prologue: Trouble in Paradise; 1 Introduction: Dead of Night; Part One: Knight and the City: The Films of Chandler's Fiction; 2 Paint It Black: Chandler as Fiction Writer; 3 The Lady Is a Tramp: The Falcon Takes Over; Murder, My Sweet; and Farewell, My Lovely; 4 Knight Moves: Two Films of The Big Sleep; 5 Down among the Rotting Palms: Time to Kill and The Brasher Doubloon; 6 Dead in the Water: Lady in the Lake; 7 Decline and Fall: Marlowe; 8 Modern Times: The Long Goodbye.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Opposition to War in Korea and Vietnam -- "The Same Struggle for Liberty": Korea and Vietnam -- Counting the Bodies in Vietnam -- Part II: Unlimited War, Limited Memory -- The Big Sleep -- Bombing Civilians: From the Twentieth to the Twenty-First Centuries -- Permanent War -- US in Asia; US in Iraq: Lessons not Learned -- "I Was Thinking, as I Often Do These Days, of War": The United States in the Twenty-First Century.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Authors, actors, adaptations -- Hawks, Chandler, Bogart, Bacall: The big sleep -- Uptown folk: blackness and entertainment in Cabin in the sky -- Hitchcock and humor -- Hitchcock at the margins of noir -- Spies and lovers: North by Northwest -- Welles, Hollywood, and Heart of darkness -- Orson Welles and movie acting -- Welles and Kubrick: two forms of exile -- The treasure of the Sierra Madre -- The return of the dead -- Part 3. …”
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Table of Contents: “…-- Twentieth century -- Comedy and tragedy -- Grant and Hepburn -- Working with writers : II -- His girl Friday -- Camerawork -- Samuel Goldwyn -- Sergeant York -- Air Force -- Ernest Hemingway -- The Hawksian woman -- Bogart and The big sleep -- Walter Brennan -- John Ford -- The western -- John Wayne -- Red River -- Marilyn Monroe -- Music -- Themes and variations : three westerns -- Hatari! …”
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