Double Indemnity links:

The following is a bibliography listed on:
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/wilderbib.html#indemnity
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Armstrong, Richard. "Lady in the Dark." Film Journal." 1(1):(no pagination). 2002
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Biesen, Sheri Chinen.
"Censorship, Film Noir, And Double Indemnity (1944)." Film & History 1995 (1-2): 40-52.
"Effectively working within the censorship restrictions of the Production Code Administration and the physical limitations imposed by the Second World War, Double Indemnity (1944) created a combination of murder and sex that inspired many imitators and helped initiate the film noir genre." [From ABC-CLIO America: History and Life]
Dirks, Tim.
"Double Indemnity." (from: Filmsite)
Gallagher, Brian.
"'I Love You Too': Sexual Warfare & Homoeroticism in Billy Wilder's Double Indemnity." Literature/ Film Quartery, vol. 15 no. 4. 1987. pp: 237-246.
Gravett, Sharon L.
"Love and Hate in Film Noir: Double Indemnity and Body Heat." The Journal of the Association for the Interdisciplinary Study of the Arts, vol. 1 no. 1. 1995 Fall. pp: 177-85.
Hagopian, Kevin Jack.
"Double Indemnity."
(from: Images, issue 2: "10 Shades of Noir")
Johnston, Claire.
"Double Indemnity." In: Women in Film Noir. Edited by E. Ann Kaplan. pp: 100-111. Rev. ed. London: BFI Publishing, 1980.
Krutnik, Frank.
In a Lonely Street: Film noir, Genre, Masculinity. London: Routledge, 1991.
Loyo, Hilaria.
"Subversive Pleasures in Billy Wilder's Double Indemnity." Atlantis: Revista de la Asociacion Espanola de Estudios Anglo- Norteamericanos, O 1993 May-Nov, 15:1-2, 169-90.
Mills, Michael.
"Barbara Stanwyk and Double Indemnity." (from: Modern Times web site)
Naremore, James.
"Straight-Down-the-Line: Making and Remaking 'Double Indemnity" Film Comment 1996 Jan-Feb, V32 N1:22-31.
"Billy Wilder's Double Indemnity, one of the most influential movies in Hollywood history, was originally filmed with a different ending. In the original version of the film, which was adapted from the James M. Cain novella, Walter Neff (Fred MacMurray) was executed in a California gas chamber. This was a controversial way to end the movie, however, and Wilder dropped it, feeling that an execution was "unnecessary." Neff's death in the gas chamber is an outgrowth of several important motifs in the film, however, and it crystallizes the full implication of those motifs. Without this scene, the film's critique of American modernity is blunted, the character played by Edward G. Robinson seems less morally complex, and audiences feel a bit more comfortable." [Art Index]
Orr, Christopher
"Cain, naturalism and noir." Film Criticism v. 25 no. 1 (Fall 2000) p. 47-64
"The writer examines film noir and "hard-boiled" fiction as an expression of specific developments within the naturalist tradition, focusing on film adaptations of James M. Cain's novels The Postman Always Rings Twice and Double Indemnity, and on American remakes and adaptations of them. These novels, he explains, are based on a causal relationship between sexual desire and criminal activity, a formula that has been popular with naturalist writers since Emile Zola. He goes on to discuss Tay Garnett's 1946 adaptation of Postman, Bob Rafelson's 1981 adaptation of the same novel, Billy Wilder's 1944 adaptation of Double Indemnity, and Lawrence Kasdan's 1981 remake of it, Body Heat, exploring the degree to which they signal either transformations in naturalism or a move away from this tradition. He concludes that the naturalist tradition has all but disappeared from the erotic crime film, a subgenre that once offered an essential critique of the American dream." [Art Index]
"Postwar Hollywood. Introduction: double indemnity and film noir." In: Hollywood's America: United States history through its films / edited with an introduction by Steven Mintz and Randy Roberts. St. James, N.Y.: Brandywine Press, 1993. -- Main Stack PN1993.5.U6.H64 1993
Prigozy, Ruth.
"Double Indemnity: Billy Wilder's Crime and Punishment." Literature/ Film Quarterly, vol. 12 no. 3. 1984. pp: 160-170.
Rozgonyi, Jay,
"The Making of Double Indemnity." Films in Review v 41 June/July 1990. p. 339-45
Spiegel, Alan.
"Seeing Triple: Cain, Chandler and Wilder on Double Indemnity." Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature, vol. 16 no. 1-2. 1983 Winter-Spring. pp: 83-101.
Shumway, David R.
"Disciplinary Identities; or, Why Is Walter Neff Telling This Story?" Symploke: A Journal for the Intermingling of Literary, Cultural and Theoretical Scholarship, 1999, 7:1-2, 97-107.
Telotte, J.P.
"Film Noir and the Double Indemnity of Discourse." Genre, 18:1 (Spring 1985) pp: 57-