Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. Historical Note x
4. Chapter 1 Introduction Black and White 1
5. Chapter 2 Little Foxes and Little Brown Wrens 17
6. Chapter 3 The Poetics of Color in Jezebel 45
7. Chapter 4 Melodramas of Blood in In This Our Life 79
8. Chapter 5 The Whiteness of What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? 123
9. Chapter 6 Bette Davis Black and White 157
10. Acknowledgments 179
11. Notes 189
12. Index 249