[eBook Code] A Companion to Film Noir (eBook Code, 1st)

List of Illustrations viii

Notes on Contributors x

Acknowledgments xviii

Foreword xix
James Naremore

Introduction: The Problem of Film Noir 1
Andrew Spicer

Part I Conceptualizing Film Noir 15

1 The Strange Case of Film Noir 17
Robert Porfirio

2 Genre, Hybridity, Heterogeneity: or, the Noir-SF-Vampire-Zombie-Splatter-Romance-Comedy-Action-Thriller Problem 33
Mark Bould

3 A Wet Emptiness: The Phenomenology of Film Noir 50
Henrik Gustafsson

4 Cinephilia and Film Noir 67
Corey K. Creekmur

Part II Hidden, Hybrid, and Transmedia Histories and Influences 77

5 Precursors to Film Noir 79
Wheeler Winston Dixon

6 Crisscrossed? Film Noir and the Politics of Mobility and Exchange 94
Alastair Phillips

7 Film Noir and Horror 111
Peter Hutchings

8 Borderings: The Film Noir Semi-Documentary 125
R. Barton Palmer

9 Crime Fiction and Film Noir 142
William Marling

10 Film Noir, American Painting and Photography: Questions of Influence 158
Tom Ryall

Part III Social, Industrial, and Commercial Contexts 175

11 The Politics of Film Noir 177
Brian Neve

12 The Black Typewriter: Who Wrote Film Noir? 193
David Wilt

13 Film Noir and Studio Production Practices 211
Geoff Mayer

14 Film Noir and Post-Studio Production Practices 229
John Berra

15 Selling Noir: Stars, Gender, and Genre in Film Noir Posters and Publicity 245
Mary Beth Haralovich

Part IV The Fabric of Film Noir: Style and Performance 265

16 Out of the Shadows: Noir Lighting and Hollywood Cinematography 267
Patrick Keating

17 The Ambience of Film Noir: Soundscapes, Design, and Mood 284
Helen Hanson

18 In a Lonely Tone: Music in Film Noir 302
David Butler

19 Acting and Performance in Film Noir 318
Donna Peberdy

Part V Identities and Film Noir 335

20 Film Noir and Subjectivity 337
Christophe Gelly

21 Women in Film Noir 353
Yvonne Tasker

22 "The Corpse on Reprieve": Film Noir's Cautionary Tales of "Tough Guy" Masculinity 369
Gaylyn Studlar

23 Ethnicity and Race in American Film Noir 387
Dan Flory

24 The Climb and the Chase: Film Noir and the Urban Scene – Representations of the City in Three Classic Noirs 405
Murray Pomerance

Part VI Noir in Other Forms 421

25 Radio Noir in the USA 423
Jesse Schlotterbeck

26 Television Noir 440
Steven Sanders

27 "It Rhymes with Lust": The Twisted History of Noir Comics 458
James Lyons

Part VII New Geographies of Film Noir 477

28 Film Noir in Asia: Historicizing South Korean Crime Thrillers 479
Nikki J.Y. Lee and Julian Stringer

29 Bombay Noir 496
Lalitha Gopalan

Index 512