A Companion to Film Noir

"The twenty-eight essays in this collection represent a landmarkin noir criticism. Written by some of the most accomplishedveterans in the field, as well as many new and promising voices,these essays are both deeply engaged with previously contestedcritical territory and agressively turned toward undiscovered anduntilled terrain ... This is a collection that will be studied,cited, and, as with all of the most influential film noircriticism, contested for many years to come." ( WideAngle , 1 March 2014)