Ebook: A Companion to Film Noir

An authoritative companion that offers a wide-ranging thematic survey of this enduringly popular cultural form and includes scholarship from both established and emerging scholars as well as analysis of film noir's influence on other media including television and graphic novels.

• Covers a wealth of new approaches to film noir and neo-noir that explore issues ranging from conceptualization to cross-media influences
• Features chapters exploring the wider ‘noir mediascape’ of television, graphic novels and radio
• Reflects the historical and geographical reach of film noir, from the 1920s to the present and in a variety of national cinemas
• Includes contributions from both established and emerging scholars

Content:
Chapter none Introduction (pages 1–13): Andrew Spicer
Chapter 1 The Strange Case of Film Noir (pages 15–32): Robert Porfirio
Chapter 2 Genre, Hybridity, Heterogeneity (pages 33–49): Mark Bould
Chapter 3 A Wet Emptiness (pages 50–66): Henrik Gustafsson
Chapter 4 Cinephilia and Film Noir (pages 67–76): Corey K. Creekmur
Chapter 5 Precursors to Film Noir (pages 77–93): Wheeler Winston Dixon
Chapter 6 Crisscrossed? (pages 94–110): Alastair Phillips
Chapter 7 Film Noir and Horror (pages 111–124): Peter Hutchings
Chapter 8 Borderings (pages 125–141): R. Barton Palmer
Chapter 9 Crime Fiction and Film Noir (pages 142–157): William Marling
Chapter 10 Film Noir, American Painting and Photography (pages 158–174): Tom Ryall
Chapter 11 The Politics of Film Noir (pages 175–192): Brian Neve
Chapter 12 The Black Typewriter (pages 193–210): David Wilt
Chapter 13 Film Noir and Studio Production Practices (pages 211–228): Geoff Mayer
Chapter 14 Film Noir and Post‐Studio Production Practices (pages 229–244): John Berra
Chapter 15 Selling Noir (pages 245–263): Mary Beth Haralovich
Chapter 16 Out of the Shadows (pages 265–283): Patrick Keating
Chapter 17 The Ambience of Film Noir (pages 284–301): Helen Hanson
Chapter 18 In a Lonely Tone (pages 302–317): David Butler
Chapter 19 Acting and Performance in Film Noir (pages 318–334): Donna Peberdy
Chapter 20 Film Noir and Subjectivity (pages 335–352): Christophe Gelly
Chapter 21 Women in Film Noir (pages 353–368): Yvonne Tasker
Chapter 22 “The Corpse on Reprieve” (pages 369–386): Gaylyn Studlar
Chapter 23 Ethnicity and Race in American Film Noir (pages 387–404): Dan Flory
Chapter 24 The Climb and the Chase (pages 405–419): Murray Pomerance
Chapter 25 Radio Noir in the USA (pages 421–439): Jesse Schlotterbeck
Chapter 26 Television Noir (pages 440–457): Steven Sanders
Chapter 27 “It Rhymes with Lust” (pages 458–475): James Lyons
Chapter 28 Film Noir in Asia (pages 477–495): Nikki J.Y. Lee and Julian Stringer
Chapter 29 Bombay Noir (pages 496–511): Lalitha Gopalan