Film noir reader /
edited by Alain Silver and James Ursini.
- 8th Limelight ed.
- New York : Limelight Editions, 2005.
- x, 343 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
Towards a definition of film noir / Noir cinema / Paint it black : the family tree of the film noir / Notes on film noir / Some visual motifs of film noir / No way out : existential motifs in the film noir / Film noir : a modest proposal / Out of what past? : notes on the B film noir / Phantom lady, Cornell Woolrich, and the masochistic aesthetic / John Farrow : anonymous noir / At the margins of film noir : Preminger\'s Angel face / The Killers : expressiveness of sound and image in film noir / Mann in the dark : the films noir of Anthony Mann / Expressionist doom in Night and the city / Kiss me deadly : evidence of a style / The post-noir P.I. : The long goodbye and Hickey and Boggs / Film noir, voice-over, and the femme fatale / What is this thing called noir? / Angst at sixty fields per second / Miami vice, the legacy of film noir / Kill me again : movement becomes genre / Son of noir : neo-film noir and the neo-B picture / Raymond Borde and Étienne Chaumeton (1955) -- Charles Higham and Joel Greenberg (1968) -- Raymond Durgnat (1970) -- Paul Schrader (1972) -- Janey Place and Lowell Peterson (1974) -- Robert Porfirio (1976) -- James Damico (1978) -- Paul Kerr (1979) -- Tony Williams -- Alain Silver and James Ursini -- Richard Lippe -- Robert Porfirio -- Robert E. Smith -- Glenn Erickson -- Alain Silver -- Elizabeth Ward -- Karen Hollinger -- Alain Silver and Linda Brookover -- James Ursini -- Jeremy G. Butler -- Todd Erickson -- Alain Silver.