Table of Contents

Introduction; Characters in Search of a Genre; The Nights of Chicago; The Morning After; The First Crusade; A New Deal for the Gangster; All Quiet on the Home Front; Shades of Noir; The Syndicate; Bonnie, Clyde, and the Kids; All in the Family; The Techniques of Violence.

About the Author

Carlos Clarens wrote An Illustrated History of the Horror Film, George Cukor, and many articles in Sight and Sound and Film Comment. His books include The Dark Side of the Screen: Film Noir (also available from Da Capo Press/ Perseus Books Group).