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This book examines the contrasting forms neo-noir has taken on screen, asking what prompts our continued interest in tales of criminality and moral uncertainty--back cover.
1. Introduction: In Pursuit of the Neo-Noir -- 2. Crime, Corruption and Social Critique: A Thematic Overview of Noir -- 3. Conflict and Crisis: Masculinity and Noir -- 4. Fear and Fantasy: Women in Noir -- 5. Noir by Any Other Name? Generic Confusion and Diffusion -- 6. A Lighter Shade of Noir: Differing Uses of Comedy -- 7. Fatalism vs. Free Will: Nihilism and Noir -- Filmography -- Index.
Includes bibliographical references, filmography (pages 237-247) and index.