Introduction: Global fugitives: outside the law and the cold war "consensus" -- Une grève, sanglante et poétique (a strike, bloody and poetic): French film noir and the defeat of the Popular Front -- The revolution that wasn't: black markets, Ressentiment, and survival in postwar British film noir -- The wintering of the Italian spring: from neorealism to film noir via Verdi -- Occupy the Zaibatsu: postwar Japanese film noir from democracy to the (re)appearance of the (old) new order -- Conclusion: Mediterranean noir: sunlight gleaming off a battered .45 -- Appendix -- International film noir classic period (selected titles).
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