Andre Spicer & Helen Hanson 
A Companion to Film Noir [PDF ebook] 

List of Illustrations viii
Notes on Contributors x
Acknowledgments xviii
Foreword xix
James Naremore
Introduction: The Problem of Film Noir 1
Andrew Spicer
Part I Conceptualizing Film Noir 15
1 The Strange Case of Film Noir 17
Robert Porfirio
2 Genre, Hybridity, Heterogeneity: or, the
Noir-SF-Vampire-Zombie-Splatter-Romance-Comedy-Action-Thriller
Problem 33
Mark Bould
3 A Wet Emptiness: The Phenomenology of Film Noir 50
Henrik Gustafsson
4 Cinephilia and Film Noir 67
Corey K. Creekmur
Part II Hidden, Hybrid, and Transmedia Histories and
Influences 77
5 Precursors to Film Noir 79
Wheeler Winston Dixon
6 Crisscrossed? Film Noir and the Politics of Mobility and
Exchange 94
Alastair Phillips
7 Film Noir and Horror 111
Peter Hutchings
8 Borderings: The Film Noir Semi-Documentary 125
R. Barton Palmer
9 Crime Fiction and Film Noir 142
William Marling
10 Film Noir, American Painting and Photography: Questions of
Influence 158
Tom Ryall
Part III Social, Industrial, and Commercial Contexts
175
11 The Politics of Film Noir 177
Brian Neve
12 The Black Typewriter: Who Wrote Film Noir? 193
David Wilt
13 Film Noir and Studio Production Practices 211
Geoff Mayer
14 Film Noir and Post-Studio Production Practices 229
John Berra
15 Selling Noir: Stars, Gender, and Genre in Film Noir Posters
and Publicity 245
Mary Beth Haralovich
Part IV The Fabric of Film Noir: Style and Performance
265
16 Out of the Shadows: Noir Lighting and Hollywood
Cinematography 267
Patrick Keating
17 The Ambience of Film Noir: Soundscapes, Design, and Mood
284
Helen Hanson
18 In a Lonely Tone: Music in Film Noir 302
David Butler
19 Acting and Performance in Film Noir 318
Donna Peberdy
Part V Identities and Film Noir 335
20 Film Noir and Subjectivity 337
Christophe Gelly
21 Women in Film Noir 353
Yvonne Tasker
22 ‘The Corpse on Reprieve’: Film Noir’s Cautionary Tales of
‘Tough Guy’ Masculinity 369
Gaylyn Studlar
23 Ethnicity and Race in American Film Noir 387
Dan Flory
24 The Climb and the Chase: Film Noir and the Urban Scene
– Representations of the City in Three Classic Noirs
405
Murray Pomerance
Part VI Noir in Other Forms 421
25 Radio Noir in the USA 423
Jesse Schlotterbeck
26 Television Noir 440
Steven Sanders
27 ‘It Rhymes with Lust’: The Twisted History of Noir Comics
458
James Lyons
Part VII New Geographies of Film Noir 477
28 Film Noir in Asia: Historicizing South Korean Crime Thrillers
479
Nikki J.Y. Lee and Julian Stringer
29 Bombay Noir 496
Lalitha Gopalan
Index 512

Andrew Spicer is Reader in Cultural History at the
University of the West of England, UK. His principal research
interests lie in film and cultural history, including genre,
stardom and constructions of masculinity, British cinema, and the
role of producers and screenwriters in film-making. He has
published widely on all these topics, including Typical Men
(2003) and Sydney Box (2006), and three volumes on film
noir: Film Noir (2002), European Film Noir (2007),
and the Historical Dictionary of Film Noir (2010). He is
currently co-editing a volume about film producers, and writing a
study of Sean Connery.
Helen Hanson is a Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at the
University of Exeter, UK. Her research interests cover adaptation,
gender and genre, film history, film style and technology, with a
particular focus on the history of Hollywood. She has written
articles and chapters on these topics, and has authored
Hollywood Heroines: Film Noir and the Female Gothic Film
(2007) and co-edited The Femme Fatale: Images, Histories,
Contexts (2010). She also has a forthcoming book on the
evolution of sound technology, sound craft and film style in
Hollywood cinema from 1931-1950.