Liminal Noir in Classical World Cinema

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Notes on Contributors

Introduction - Elyce Rae Helford and Christopher Weedman

Part I. Exposing Cultural Anxieties

1. The Despair of the Noir Generation: Wajda's Ashes and Diamonds - Alan Woolfolk

2. The Fleap being Neither Flea nor Fly: Ida Lupino's Interrogations of Female Trauma in Never Fear - Julie Grossman

3. Running Aimlessly: Camino Cortado and Autarkic Spain - Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns

4. Race and the Noir Western: Navigating The Walking Hills - Elyce Rae Helford

Part II. Reconceptualising National Cinemas

5. 'My Mama Done Tol' Me': Jewish Emigre Noir, Hybridity, and Black-Jewish Relations in Blues in the Night - Vincent Brook

6. Expressionism, Existentialism, and Socialism in Scars of the Past - Milan Hain

7. The Deadly Seduction of a Rake: British Costume Melodrama, Noir, and the 'Othered' Woman in The Gypsy and the Gentleman - Christopher Weedman

8. Argentine Gothic-Noir Fusion in The Black Vampire - Osvaldo Di Paolo Harrison and Nadina Olmedo

Part III. Aesthetics and Antecedents

9. A 'Feeling of Suspension': Tradition and Modernity in La Pointe Courte - Alicia Byrnes

10. Dostoyevsky '58: Richard Brooks's Brothers Karamazov as Baroque Noir - Matthew Sorrento

11. Men in Black: I Confess, the Hitchcock Noir, and the American Gothic - David Greven

Index

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• Filme: estilos e gêneros
• Teoria e crítica de filmes
• Filmes, cinema
• Realizadores e produtores de filmes individuais

cinema history; film history; film noir; genre; international cinema; liminality