24 Frames: A Bela do Bas-Fond (Party Girl, Nicholas Ray, 1958)

The city in question is Chicago in the 1930s, although its appearance is glossy rather than gritty, its settings largely interiors rather than urban streets. The main structural pairings and oppositions are between one particular location within the city and another (for example, night-club versus courtroom, train compartment versus jail, and so on), rather than