Class, crime and international film noir: globalizing America's dark art
List of Figures Foreword Preface: On Symbolic Misery and Its Attenuation (And the Crime Film) Acknowledgements Introduction: Global Fugitives: Outside the Law and the Cold War 'Consensus' 1. Un greve, sanglant et poetic (A Strike, Bloody and Poetic): French Film Noir and the Defeat of the Popular Front 2. The Revolution That Wasn't: Black Markets, Ressentiment, and Survival in Postwar British Film Noir 3. The Wintering of the Italian Spring: From Neorealism to Film Noir via Verdi 4. Occupy the Zaibatsu: Postwar Japanese Film Noir: From Democracy to the (Re)Appearance of the (Old) New Order Conclusion: Mediterranean Noir: Sunlight Gleaming Off a Battered .45 Appendix Bibliography Endnotes Index?