Liminal Noir in Classical World Cinema

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