Introduction / Alain Silver -- German expressionism and film noir / Robert G. Porfirio -- Looking back--Victorinoir : modern women and the fatal(e) progeny of Victorian representations / Julie Grossman -- Proto-noir motifs in Metropolis / Alain Silver -- Paleo-noir / Homer B. Pettey -- Film noir, American painting and photography : a question of influence? / Tom Ryall -- Proto-noir--DeMille style / Alain Silver and James Ursini -- Proto-noir pictorialism in the 1930s films of John Ford / Alain Silver -- Universal horror and film noir--The mummy and The black cat / James Ursini -- Film noir graphics : origins / Alain Silver and James Ursini -- Hitchcock before noir : Hitchcock's gaumont British thrillers as film noir prototypes / Richard Edwards -- Noir revealed : Robert Florey and The face behind the mask / James V. D'Arc and Todd Erickson -- Crime and punishment--the mother of all noir / James Ursini -- The gangster in film noir / Alain Silver -- Some French films of the occupation : the silence of the noir / Tony Williams -- That sinking feeling : Cornell Woolrich and the uncanny noir mood / Marlisa Santos -- Women and film noir : pulp fiction and the woman's picture / Julie Grossman -- "Rawness to romance" : "gothic" thrillers as film noir prototypes from Alfred Hitchcock to Orson Welles / Sheri Chinen Biesen -- The rogue cop film : theft, adaptation, and prototypicality in Where the sidewalk ends / Robert Miklitsch -- The "House of death" in print and on-screen : Double indemnity as journalism, fiction, and film / Jesse Schlotterbeck -- The influence of an émigré film noir auteur : Fred Zinnemann's social realism and cultural critique in Act of violence / Sheri Chinen Biesen.
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