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Index
Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication Page
Contents
List of Illustrations
Preface to the 2008 Edition
Acknowledgments
Introduction: This is where I Came in
1 - The History of an Idea
Noir is Born: Paris, 1946–1959
Darkness Everywhere
2 - Modernism and Blood Melodrama: Three Case Studies
Believing in Nothing
Sympathy for the Devil
The Death Chamber
3 - From Dark Films to Black Lists: Censorship and Politics
Bourbon with a Bourbon Chaser
The Snakes Are Loose
After 1947
4 - Low is High: Budgets and Critical Discrimination
B Pictures Versus Intermediates
Post-B Pictures
5 - Old is New: Styles of Noir
Black and White and Red
Parody, Pastiche, Fashion
6 - The Other Side of the Street
Asia
Latin America
Africa
7 - The Noir Mediascape
8 - Noir in the Twenty-First Century
Legends and Lists
Further Research
More Styles of Noir
Noir Never Dies
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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