Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors
Foreword: 'If Only My Leg Didn't Itch', by Mike Hodges
Parallax Views: An Introduction, by Mark Bould, Kathrina Glitre, and Greg Tuck
1. Under the Neon Rainbow: Colour and Neo-Noir, by Kathrina Glitre
2. Audio-Noir: Audiovisuality in Neo-Modernist Noir, by Robert Miklitsch
3. Paranoia and Nostalgia: Sonic Motifs and Songs in Neo-Noir, by Helen Hanson
4. The End of Work: From Double Indemnity to Body Heat, by Carl Freedman
5. Worlds Without Consequence: Two Versions of Film Noir in the 1980s, by Edward Gallafent
6. From Lonely Streets to Lonely Rooms: Prefiguration, Affective Responses and the Max Payne Single-Player, by Greg Singh
7. The New Lower Depths: Paris in French Neo-Noir Cinema, by Ginette Vincendeau
8. The Shadow of Outlaws in Asian Noir: Hiroshima, Hong Kong and Seoul, by Hyangjin Lee
9. British Neo-Noir and Reification: Croupier and Dirty Pretty Things, by Mike Wayne
10. Laughter in the Dark: Irony, Black Comedy and Noir in the Films of David Lynch, the Coen Brothers and Quentin Tarantino, by Greg Tuck
11. A Woman Scorned: The Neo-Noir Erotic Thriller as Revenge Drama, by Linda Ruth Williams
12. Neo-Noir's Fatal Woman: Stardom, Survival and Sharon Stone, by Rebecca Feasey
13. Fatality Revisited: The Problem of 'Anxiety' in Psychoanalytic-Feminist Approaches to Film Noir, by Suzy Gordon
14. The Thin Men: Anorexic Subjectivity in Fight Club and The Machinist, by Sherryl Vint and Mark Bould
15. Memento: Pasting Ourselves Together Through Cinema, by Deborah Thomas
Filmography
Index

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edited by Mark Bould, Kathrina Glitre, and Greg Tuck. Foreword by Mike Hodges

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