Cover -- Title -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface: Noir Futures: "It's a Bright Guilty World" -- Introduction: Back to Black: "Crime Melodrama," Docu-Melo-Noir, and the "Red Menace" Film -- 1. Independence Unpunished: The Female Detective in Classic Film Noir Philippa Gates -- 2. Women and Film Noir: Pulp Fiction and the Woman's Picture Julie Grossman -- 3. The Vanishing Love Song in Film Noir Krin Gabbard -- 4. Radio, Film Noir, and the Aesthetics of Auditory Spectale Neil Verma -- 5. Disney Noir: "Just Drawn That Way" J. P. Telotte -- 6. Detour: Driving in a Back Projection, or Forestalled by Film Noir Vivian Sobchack -- 7. Producing Noir: Wald, Scott, Hellinger Andrew Spicer -- 8. Refuge England: Blacklisted American Directors and '50s British Noir -- 9. A Little Larceny: Labor, Leisure, and Loyalty in the '50s Noir Heist Film -- 10. Periodizing Classic Noir: From Stranger on the Third Floor to the "Thrillers of Tomorrow" Robe -- Classic Noir on the Net -- Critical Literature on Film Noir -- Contributors -- Index.