Table of Contents

1. The Background to Film Noir
2. Conditons of Production and Reception
3. Noir Style     
4. Themes and Narrative Strategies
5. Gender in Film Noir: Character Types and Performers
6.  The Noir Auteur
7.  Neo-Noir 1: Modernist Film Noir
8.  Neo-Noir 2: Postmodern Film Noir
9.  British Film Noir
Further Reading
Bibliography
Index 

Promotional Information

This excellent overview of Film Noir discusses the celebrated, but also contested, body of films whose history is more extensive and diverse than American black and white crime thrillers of the forties.     

About the Author

Andrew Spicer is at the University of West England