The Book of film noir
By: edited by Ian Cameron
Contributors: Cameron, Ian Alexander, 1937-
Publisher: Continuum
Published: 1993
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
Subjects: Film noir -- United States -- History and criticism
Notes: "Published in Britain as The Movie book of film noir"--T.p. verso

Includes bibliographical references (p. 7) and index
Table of contents: title: Film noir : introduction / Michael Walker; title: The politics of the maladjusted text / Richard Maltby; title: Noir is also a French word : the French antecedents of film noir / Ginette Vincendeau; title: How Hollywood deals with the deviant male / Deborah Thomas; title: Psychoanalysis and film noir / Deborah Thomas; title: Tame wolves and phoney claims : paranoia and film noir / Jonathan Buchsbaum; title: Film noir and suppressive narrative : beyond a reasonable doubt / Douglas Pye; title: Robert Siodmak / Michael Walker; title: The man's melodrama : The woman in the window and Scarlet Street / Florence Jacobowitz; title: Double indemnity (or bringing up baby) / Peter William Evans; title: Detour / Andrew Britton; title: Fallen angel / Bob Baker; title: The big sleep : Howard Hawks and film noir / Michael Walker; title: Out of the past a.k.a. build my gallows high / Leighton Grist; title: The lady from Shanghai : betrayed by Rita Hayworth / Andrew Britton; title: In a lonely place / V.F. Perkins; title: Angel face ; Kiss me, deadly / Edward Gallafent; title: The big combo : production conditions and the film text / Chris Hugo; title: Echo Park : film noir in the 'seventies / Edward Gallafent; title: Moving targets and black widows : film noir in modern Hollywood / Leighton Grist