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No. 16 – Dark Alleys of Noir (2002)

Edited by Jack O’Connell

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Table of Contents

    • That Sense of Impending Doom, pp 3-10
      Jack O’Connell
    • Hardboiled (Had I but Known), pp 11-25
      Jeanne Ewert
    • Enlightenment Noir: Hammett’s Detectives and the Genealogy of the Modern (Private) “I”, pp 26-47
      Paula Geyh
    • John Fante: Between Two Worlds, pp 48-55
      Woody Haut
    • In the Thieves’ Market: The Life and Times of A.I. Bezzerides, pp 56-61
      Woody Haut
    • Paradoxa Interview with Jonathan Lethem, pp 62-74
      Shelley Jackson
    • Jonathan Lethem Bibliography pp 75-79
      David Myers & Fiona Kelleghan
    • Noir on Noir: Barbara Hambly’s New Orleans Detective Novels, pp 80-94
      Sylvia Kelso
    • VR Noir: Kim Newman’s The Night Mayor, pp 95-109
      Rob Latham
    • Paradoxa Interview with Robert Skinner, pp 110-122
      Patrick Millikin
    • Late Victorian Adventure and Film Noir, pp 123-152
      Stanley Orr
    • Masculinity in the Novels of David Goodis, pp 153-177
      David Schmid
    • Lost Memory and New Noir, pp 177-189
      J.P. Telotte
    • Walter Mosley and the Books of Ezekiel, pp 190-202
      Helen M. Whall
    • Jim Thompson’s Rural Pulp Fiction, pp 203-210
      Trisha Yarbrough
    • A Bibliography of Secondary Sources of Noir — Novels and Films, pp 211-229
      Norbert Spehner
    • Review of The Critical Response to Dashiel Hammett and The Critical Response to Raymond Chandler pp 230-235
      John H. Dorenkamp
    • Review of American Noir, pp 236-241
      Carl Freedman
    • Reviews of Die Lange Nacht der Schutten: Film Noir und Filmexil and M, pp 242-246
      Steffen Hantke
    • Review of Murdering Masculinities, pp 247-254
      David Schmid
    • The Life and Times of Chester Himes, Reviews of The Critical Response to Chester Himes and Chester Himes: A Life, pp 255-265
      Robert Skinner
    • Review of PopLit, PopCult and the X-Files, pp 266-269
      B.R. Smith
    • Review of More Than Night: Film Noir in its Contexts, pp 270-276
      Vivian Sobchack
    • Hedy Lamar’s Face: Review of Out of the Past, pp 277-280
      Michael Spingler
    • Review of the The Noir Thriller, pp 281-284
      Marcus Stiglegger
    • Review of Gumshoe America, pp 285-288
      Alan Wald