Elyce Rae Helford is Professor of English at Middle Tennessee State University. Dr Christopher Weedman is Assistant Professor of English at Middle Tennessee State University. He is co-editor of Adult Themes: British Cinema and the X Certificate in the Long 1960s (Bloomsbury, 2023) and Liminal Noir in Classical World Cinema (Edinburgh University Press, 2023).

Paves the way for renewed and enriching interpretations of noir, marking a significant stride toward more globalized interpretations of this genre.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsNotes on ContributorsIntroduction - Elyce Rae Helford and Christopher WeedmanPart I. Exposing Cultural Anxieties1. The Despair of the Noir Generation: Wajda’s Ashes and Diamonds - Alan Woolfolk2. The Fleap being Neither Flea nor Fly: Ida Lupino’s Interrogations of Female Trauma in Never Fear - Julie Grossman3. Running Aimlessly: Camino Cortado and Autarkic Spain - Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns4. Race and the Noir Western: Navigating The Walking Hills - Elyce Rae HelfordPart II. Reconceptualising National Cinemas5. ‘My Mama Done Tol’ Me’: Jewish Émigré Noir, Hybridity, and Black-Jewish Relations in Blues in the Night - Vincent Brook6. Expressionism, Existentialism, and Socialism in Scars of the Past - Milan Hain7. The Deadly Seduction of a Rake: British Costume Melodrama, Noir, and the ‘Othered’ Woman in The Gypsy and the Gentleman - Christopher Weedman8. Argentine Gothic-Noir Fusion in The Black Vampire - Osvaldo Di Paolo Harrison and Nadina OlmedoPart III. Aesthetics and Antecedents9. A ‘Feeling of Suspension’: Tradition and Modernity in La Pointe Courte - Alicia Byrnes10. Dostoyevsky ‘58: Richard Brooks’s Brothers Karamazov as Baroque Noir - Matthew Sorrento11. Men in Black: I Confess, the Hitchcock Noir, and the American Gothic - David GrevenIndex

Elyce Rae Helford is Professor of English at Middle Tennessee State University. Dr Christopher Weedman is Assistant Professor of English at Middle Tennessee State University. He is co-editor of Adult Themes: British Cinema and the X Certificate in the Long 1960s (Bloomsbury, 2023) and Liminal Noir in Classical World Cinema (Edinburgh University Press, 2023).

Paves the way for renewed and enriching interpretations of noir, marking a significant stride toward more globalized interpretations of this genre.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsNotes on ContributorsIntroduction - Elyce Rae Helford and Christopher WeedmanPart I. Exposing Cultural Anxieties1. The Despair of the Noir Generation: Wajda’s Ashes and Diamonds - Alan Woolfolk2. The Fleap being Neither Flea nor Fly: Ida Lupino’s Interrogations of Female Trauma in Never Fear - Julie Grossman3. Running Aimlessly: Camino Cortado and Autarkic Spain - Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns4. Race and the Noir Western: Navigating The Walking Hills - Elyce Rae HelfordPart II. Reconceptualising National Cinemas5. ‘My Mama Done Tol’ Me’: Jewish Émigré Noir, Hybridity, and Black-Jewish Relations in Blues in the Night - Vincent Brook6. Expressionism, Existentialism, and Socialism in Scars of the Past - Milan Hain7. The Deadly Seduction of a Rake: British Costume Melodrama, Noir, and the ‘Othered’ Woman in The Gypsy and the Gentleman - Christopher Weedman8. Argentine Gothic-Noir Fusion in The Black Vampire - Osvaldo Di Paolo Harrison and Nadina OlmedoPart III. Aesthetics and Antecedents9. A ‘Feeling of Suspension’: Tradition and Modernity in La Pointe Courte - Alicia Byrnes10. Dostoyevsky ‘58: Richard Brooks’s Brothers Karamazov as Baroque Noir - Matthew Sorrento11. Men in Black: I Confess, the Hitchcock Noir, and the American Gothic - David GrevenIndex

Elyce Rae Helford is Professor of English at Middle Tennessee State University. Dr Christopher Weedman is Assistant Professor of English at Middle Tennessee State University. He is co-editor of Adult Themes: British Cinema and the X Certificate in the Long 1960s (Bloomsbury, 2023) and Liminal Noir in Classical World Cinema (Edinburgh University Press, 2023).

Paves the way for renewed and enriching interpretations of noir, marking a significant stride toward more globalized interpretations of this genre.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsNotes on ContributorsIntroduction - Elyce Rae Helford and Christopher WeedmanPart I. Exposing Cultural Anxieties1. The Despair of the Noir Generation: Wajda’s Ashes and Diamonds - Alan Woolfolk2. The Fleap being Neither Flea nor Fly: Ida Lupino’s Interrogations of Female Trauma in Never Fear - Julie Grossman3. Running Aimlessly: Camino Cortado and Autarkic Spain - Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns4. Race and the Noir Western: Navigating The Walking Hills - Elyce Rae HelfordPart II. Reconceptualising National Cinemas5. ‘My Mama Done Tol’ Me’: Jewish Émigré Noir, Hybridity, and Black-Jewish Relations in Blues in the Night - Vincent Brook6. Expressionism, Existentialism, and Socialism in Scars of the Past - Milan Hain7. The Deadly Seduction of a Rake: British Costume Melodrama, Noir, and the ‘Othered’ Woman in The Gypsy and the Gentleman - Christopher Weedman8. Argentine Gothic-Noir Fusion in The Black Vampire - Osvaldo Di Paolo Harrison and Nadina OlmedoPart III. Aesthetics and Antecedents9. A ‘Feeling of Suspension’: Tradition and Modernity in La Pointe Courte - Alicia Byrnes10. Dostoyevsky ‘58: Richard Brooks’s Brothers Karamazov as Baroque Noir - Matthew Sorrento11. Men in Black: I Confess, the Hitchcock Noir, and the American Gothic - David GrevenIndex