Edges of Noir

Michael Mirabile is Assistant Professor in the English Department at Lewis and Clark College. He has published work on film, postmodernism, and the author Don DeLillo. He teaches film studies, film adaptation, post-World War II American fiction, and suspense and detective fiction.

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Acknowledgements



Introduction



Chapter 1. Noir Confidential! Exposure and Panic in the Preceding Decade

Chapter 2. Beyond Suspicion: The Transitional Moment of Late Noir

Chapter 3. Clinical-Carceral: Cold War Surveillance and Confinement in Three Entrapment Narratives

Chapter 4. From Noir to Pulp: The Perverse Case of The Naked Kiss

Chapter 5. Late Noir and the Bomb: Mirage as Intertextual Reflection on Catastrophic Time

Chapter 6. (Un)Containment Strategies: A Hyperbolics of Sex

Chapter 7. Shattered Mirror: Multiple Fragments of Late Noir



Conclusion



Selected Filmography

Bibliography