The Big Book of Noir Author:Ed Gorman (Editor), Lee Server (Editor), Martin H. Greenberg (Editor) Introduction. Paint it black: the family tree of the film noir / Raymond Durgnat -- — I: Film noir. Fritz Lang remembers / Gene D. Phillips -- — Marlowe's mean streets: the cinematic world of Raymond Chandler / William F. Nolan -- — A walk on the wilder side: Billy Wilder and the Hollywood noir mainstream / William Relling, Jr. -- — Robert Siodm... more »ak in black and white / Jean Pierre Coursodon --
Marc Lawrence: the last gangster / Lee Server --
The making of The naked city / Malvin Wald --
Daniel Mainwaring: an interview / Tom Flinn --
Out of the past / Tom Flinn --
From the nightmare factory: HUAC and the politics of noir / Philip Kemp --
If you don't get killed it's a lucky day: a conversation with Abraham Polonsky / Lee Server --
The novel and films of Night and the city / Paul Duncan --
Phil Karlson: dreams and dead ends / Jack Shadoian --
The thieves' market: A.I. Bezzerides in Hollywood / Lee Server --
The Welles touch: Charlton Heston on Orson Welles / James Delson --
Spy vs. spy: John Huston and The Kremlin letter / Peter Richards --
From The big sleep to The long goodbye / Leigh Brackett --
Kill me again: the rise of nouveau noir / Stephen Hunter --
True confessions / Jon L. Breen --
The black list: essential film noir / Lee Server --
II: Fiction. The last days of Cornell Woolrich. Cornell George Hopley Woolrich / Barry N. Malzberg ; Con / Don Yates --
My friend Fredric Brown / Walt Sheldon --
Warning! Warning! Hitchhikers may be escaped lunatics! / Stephen King --
Golden harvest: twenty-five-cent paperbacks / Ed Gorman --
Forgotten writers: Gil Brewer / Bill Pronzini --
Harry Whittington / Bill Crider --
John D. MacDonald / Ed Gorman --
I kill 'em inch by inch! / Steve Holland --
Lion books: noir paperback icons / Gary Lovisi --
An interview with Arnold Hano / George Tuttle --
Mecca Spillane / Max Allan Collins --
SeÌrie noire / Etienne Borgers --
Lew Archer as culture maven / Burton Kendle --
Fifteen impressions of Charles Williams / Ed Gorman --
A too brief conversation with Peter Rabe / George Tuttle --
Dell first editions / Bill Crider --
Interview with Donald Westlake / Charles L.P. Silet --
Chester Himes: America's black heartland / James Stallis --
Donald Hamilton / Robert Skinner --
Highsmith's Ripley from villain to vigilante / Noel Mawer --
Not herself mean: hard-boiled and female, without contradiction / Dulcy Brainard --
From under Hammett's mask / Dick Lochte --
Charles Willeford: an interview / Sybil Steinberg --
Fresh blood: British neo-noir / Mike Ripley and Maxim Jakubowski --
Larry Block / James Sallis --
Who's in the room / Bill Crider --
Author notes / Jon L. Breen --
Authors / Ed Gorman and Lee Server --
III: Comic books. Comic book noir / Ron Goulart --
IV: Radio & television. Radio noir / William Nadel --
Howard Duff and The adventures of Sam Spade / Mark Dawidziak --
Jack Webb: TV's noir auteur / Max Allan Collins --
Shadows in your living room: Peter Gunn, Johnny Staccato, and the lost age of TV noir / Lee Server« less