Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Dropping the Bombshell -- 1. Noir in Black and White -- 2. Poisonous Jewels in Murder, My Sweet -- 3. Stereotype and Voice in The Lady from Shanghai -- 4. Sleeping Beauty and Her Doubles: The (Uncanny) Secret beyond the Door -- 5. Mad about Noir: Hitchcock's Vertigo -- 6. The Borderlands of Touch of Evil -- 7. Jokes in Chinatown: A Question of Place -- 8. Franklin's New Noir: Devil in a Blue Dress -- 9. Make It Real: Bound's Way Out -- 10. The Space of Noir -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Filmography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.