Theater, History & Criticism, Theory 

Contents:
Introduction / Alain Silver --
German expressionism and film noir / Robert G. Porfirio --
Looking back-victorinoir: modern women and the fatal(e) progeny of Victorian representations / Julie Grossman --
Proto-noir motifs in Metropolis / Alain Silver --
Paleo-noir / Homer B. Pettey --
Film noir, American painting and photography: a question of influence? / Tom Ryall --
Proto-noir-Demille style / Alain Silver and James Ursini --
Proto-noir pictorialism in the 1930s films of John Ford / Alain Silver --
Universal horror and film noir-The mummy and The black cat / James Ursini --
Film noir graphics: origins / Alain Silver and James Ursini --
Hitchcock before noir: Hitchcock's gaumont British thrillers as film noir prototypes / Richard Edwards --
Noir revealed: Robert Florey and The face behind the mask / James V. D'Arc and Todd Erickson --
Crime and punishment-the mother of all noir / James Ursini --
The gangster in film noir / Alain Silver --
Some French films of the occupation: the silence of the noir / Tony Williams --
That sinking feeling: Cornell Woolrich and the uncanny noir mood / Marlisa Santos --
Women and film noir: Pulp fiction and the woman's picture / Julie Grossman --
"Rawness to romance": "gothic" thrillers as film noir prototypes from Alfred Hitchcock to Orson Welles / Sheri Chinen Biesen --
The rogue cop film: theft, adaptation, and prototypicality in Where the sidewalk ends / Robert Miklitsch --
The "House of death" in print and on-screen: double indemnity as journalism, fiction and film / Jesse Schlotterbeck --
The influence of "migr" film noir auteur: Fred Zinnemann's social realism and cultural critique in act of violence / Sheri Chinen Biesen