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Title
Contents
Acknowledgments
Preface: Noir Futures: "It's a Bright Guilty World"
Introduction: Back to Black: "Crime Melodrama," Docu-Melo-Noir, and the "Red Menace" Film
1. Independence Unpunished: The Female Detective in Classic Film Noir Philippa Gates
2. Women and Film Noir: Pulp Fiction and the Woman's Picture Julie Grossman
3. The Vanishing Love Song in Film Noir Krin Gabbard
4. Radio, Film Noir, and the Aesthetics of Auditory Spectale Neil Verma
5. Disney Noir: "Just Drawn That Way" J. P. Telotte
6. Detour: Driving in a Back Projection, or Forestalled by Film Noir Vivian Sobchack
7. Producing Noir: Wald, Scott, Hellinger Andrew Spicer
8. Refuge England: Blacklisted American Directors and '50s British Noir
9. A Little Larceny: Labor, Leisure, and Loyalty in the '50s Noir Heist Film
10. Periodizing Classic Noir: From Stranger on the Third Floor to the "Thrillers of Tomorrow" Robe
Classic Noir on the Net
Critical Literature on Film Noir
Contributors
Index