The Encyclopedia of Film Noir is designed to provide an accessible yet scholarly, user-friendly but research-informed, comprehensive account of the phenomenon of film noir—both the classical film noir cycle (approximately 1939–1959) as well the modern, or neo-noir, period, which constitutes films produced after 1959. The encyclopedia presents this survey of film noir in two main ways. First, it offers five substantial overview essays in which the authors investigate significant aspects of film noir and the various contexts within which it developed. These essays explore the contested nature of noir, as evidenced above in the radically different position taken by Neale and Silver; in the vexed question of whether it can considered a film genre; in its relationship to hard-boiled crime fiction; in its iconic presentation of the American city; in political and cultural influences associated with the postwar and Cold War periods (including the activities of the House Committee on Un-American Activities); and in film noir s distinctive visual style.
Part I: Essays
Introduction:
Readings on Film Noir 3
Geoff Mayer
The Hard-Boiled Infl uence 19
Geoff Mayer
Film Noir and the City 47
Brian McDonnell
McCarthyism, the House Committee on Un-American Activities, and the Caper Film 62
Geoff Mayer
Film Noir Style 70
Brian McDonnell
PART II: ENTRIES ON FILMS, ACTORS, AND DIRECTORS
The Encyclopedia 85
Selected Bibliography 451
Index 455
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