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

An authoritative companion that offers a wide-ranging thematicsurvey of this enduringly popular cultural form and includesscholarship from both established and emerging scholars as well asanalysis of film noir's influence on other media includingtelevision and graphic novels.* Covers a wealth of new approaches to film noir and neo-noirthat explore issues ranging from conceptualization to cross-mediainfluences* Features chapters exploring the wider 'noirmediascape' of television, graphic novels and radio* Reflects the historical and geographical reach of film noirfrom the 1920s to the present and in a variety of nationalcinemas* Includes contributions from both established and emergingscholars

List of Illustrations viiiNotes on Contributors xAcknowledgments xviiiForeword xixJames NaremoreIntroduction: The Problem of Film Noir 1Andrew SpicerPart I Conceptualizing Film Noir 151 The Strange Case of Film Noir 17Robert Porfirio2 Genre, Hybridity, Heterogeneity: or, theNoir-SF-Vampire-Zombie-Splatter-Romance-Comedy-Action-ThrillerProblem 33Mark Bould3 A Wet Emptiness: The Phenomenology of Film Noir 50Henrik Gustafsson4 Cinephilia and Film Noir 67Corey K. CreekmurPart II Hidden, Hybrid, and Transmedia Histories andInfluences 775 Precursors to Film Noir 79Wheeler Winston Dixon6 Crisscrossed? Film Noir and the Politics of Mobility andExchange 94Alastair Phillips7 Film Noir and Horror 111Peter Hutchings8 Borderings: The Film Noir Semi-Documentary 125R. Barton Palmer9 Crime Fiction and Film Noir 142William Marling10 Film Noir, American Painting and Photography: Questions ofInfluence 158Tom RyallPart III Social, Industrial, and Commercial Contexts17511 The Politics of Film Noir 177Brian Neve12 The Black Typewriter: Who Wrote Film Noir? 193David Wilt13 Film Noir and Studio Production Practices 211Geoff Mayer14 Film Noir and Post-Studio Production Practices 229John Berra15 Selling Noir: Stars, Gender, and Genre in Film Noir Postersand Publicity 245Mary Beth HaralovichPart IV The Fabric of Film Noir: Style and Performance26516 Out of the Shadows: Noir Lighting and HollywoodCinematography 267Patrick Keating17 The Ambience of Film Noir: Soundscapes, Design, and Mood284Helen Hanson18 In a Lonely Tone: Music in Film Noir 302David Butler19 Acting and Performance in Film Noir 318Donna PeberdyPart V Identities and Film Noir 33520 Film Noir and Subjectivity 337Christophe Gelly21 Women in Film Noir 353Yvonne Tasker22 "The Corpse on Reprieve": Film Noir's Cautionary Tales of"Tough Guy" Masculinity 369Gaylyn Studlar23 Ethnicity and Race in American Film Noir 387Dan Flory24 The Climb and the Chase: Film Noir and the Urban Scene Representations of the City in Three Classic Noirs405Murray PomerancePart VI Noir in Other Forms 42125 Radio Noir in the USA 423Jesse Schlotterbeck26 Television Noir 440Steven Sanders27 "It Rhymes with Lust": The Twisted History of Noir Comics458James LyonsPart VII New Geographies of Film Noir 47728 Film Noir in Asia: Historicizing South Korean Crime Thrillers479Nikki J.Y. Lee and Julian Stringer29 Bombay Noir 496Lalitha GopalanIndex 512