More than night

University of California Press

2008

XVIII, 384 p.

9780520254022

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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