Film Noir, Film analysis, Film History 

Film Noir Reader 

Contents:
PART ONE : More seminal essays. Crime certainly pays on the screen / Lloyd Shearer (1945) --
A new king of police drama : the criminal adventure / Nino Frank (1946) --
Americans are also making noir films / Jean-Pierre Chartier (1946) --
The evolution of the crime drama / Claude Chambrol (1955) --
Three faces of film noir / Tom Flinn (1972) --
Violence and the bitch goddess / Stephen Farber (1974) --
The filmic transaction : on the opening of films noirs / Marc Vernet (1983) --
Film noir : style and content / Dale E. Ewing, Jr. (1988) --
PART TWO : Case studies. Whatever happened to the film noir? The postman always rings twice (1946-1981) / Robert G. Porfirio --
Creativity and evaluation : two film noirs of the fifties / Robin Wood --
Fragments of the mirror : Hitchcock's noir landscape / Alain Silver --
The unintended femme fatale : the file on Thelma Jordan and Pushover / Elizabeth Ward --
Translate and transform : from Cornell Woolrich to film noir / Francis M. Nevins --
Film noir and Samuel Fuller's tabloid cinema : Red (Action), White (Exposition) and Blue (Romance) / Grant Tracey --
Dark jazz : music in the film noir / Robert G. Porfirio --
Mad love is strange : more neo-noir fugitives / Linda Brookover and Alain Silver --
PART THREE : The evolution of noir. Son of noir / Richard Jameson --
Writing the new noir film / Sharon Y. Cobb --
Blanc et noir : crime as art / Linda Brookover --
Noir science / James Ursini --
British film noir / Tony Williams --
Peinture noire : abstract expressionism and film noir / Kent Minturn --
Girl power : female-centered neo-noir / William Covey --
Noir 101 / Philip Gaines.