5. Worlds Without Consequence: Two Versions of Film Noir in the 1980s

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Notes on Contributors vii
4. Foreword: ‘If Only My Leg Didn’t Itch’ ix
5. Parallax Views: An Introduction 1
6. 1. Under the Neon Rainbow: Colour and Neo-Noir 11
7. 2. Audio-Noir: Audiovisuality in Neo-Modernist Noir 28
8. 3. Paranoia and Nostalgia: Sonic Motifs and Songs in Neo-Noir 44
9. 4. The End of Work: From Double Indemnity to Body Heat 61
10. 5. Worlds Without Consequence: Two Versions of Film Noir in the 1980s 75
11. 6. From Lonely Streets to Lonely Rooms: Prefiguration, Affective Responses and the Max Payne Single-Player 90
12. 7. The New Lower Depths: Paris in French Neo-Noir Cinema 103
13. 8. The Shadow of Outlaws in Asian Noir: Hiroshima, Hong Kong and Seoul 118
14. 9. British Neo-Noir and Reification: Croupier and Dirty Pretty Things 136
15. 10. Laughter in the Dark: Irony, Black Comedy and Noir in the Films of David Lynch, the Coen Brothers and Quentin Tarantino 152
16. 11. A Woman Scorned: The Neo-Noir Erotic Thriller as Revenge Drama 168
17. 12. Neo-Noir’s Fatal Woman: Stardom, Survival and Sharon Stone 186
18. 13. Fatality Revisited: The Problem of ‘Anxiety’ in Psychoanalytic-Feminist Approaches to Film Noir 203
19. 14. The Thin Men: Anorexic Subjectivity in Fight Club and The Machinist 221
20. 15. Memento: Pasting Ourselves Together Through Cinema 240
21. Filmography 254
22. Index 265