Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. Illustrations xi
4. Preface to the 2008 edition xv
5. Acknowledgments xvii
6. Introduction: This Is Where I Came In 1
7. 1. The History of an Idea 9
8. 2. Modernism and Blood Melodrama: Three Case Studies 40
9. 3. From Dark Films to Black Lists: Censorship and Politics 96
10. 4. Low Is High: Budgets and Critical Discrimination 136
11. 5. Old Is New: Styles of Noir 167
12. 6. The Other Side of the Street 220
13. 7. The Noir Mediascape 254
14. 8. Noir in the Twenty-first Century 278
15. Notes 311
16. Bibliography 343
17. General Index 355
18. Film and Broadcast Index 379