AMST 330
Secondary Reading
Specific bibliographic guidance will be given week-by-week for the module.
Note that copies of all the films screened as part of the module will be available from the Main and/or Departmental Library, and that copies of numerous other film noir will be made available for loan from the tutor, as required.
Titles in bold indicate specific film noir texts, as opposed to general film criticism, or specific detective-tradition criticism which is listed for literary options.
Alpi, Deborah Lazaroff, Robert Siodmak: A Biography with critical analyses of
his films noirs (1998) [PN1998.3.S63A5]
Binyon, T.J., Murder will Out: The Detective in Fiction (1990) [PN3448.D4B4]
Bassoff, Lawrence, Crime Secrets: Movie Poster Art of the Film Noir (1997) [PN1995.9.P5B2]
Belton, John, American Cinema/American Culture (1994) [PN1993.5.B3]
Biskind, Peter, Seeing Is Believing: How Hollywood Taught Us to Stop Worrying and Love
the Fifties (1983) [PN1995.9.P6B4]
Bordwell, David et al, The Classical Hollywood Cinema: Film Style and Mode of
Production to 1960 (1985) [PN1993.5.U65B6] [short loan]
Brooks, Peter, Reading for the Plot: Design and Intention in Narrative (1984) [PN3378.B7]
Buss, Robin, French Film Noir (1994) PN1995.9.F4B8
Cameron, Ian, editor, The Movie Book of Film Noir (1994) [PN1995.9.F4C2]
Cawelti, John, Adventure, Mystery and Romance: Formula Stories as Art and Popular Culture (1976) [PN3355.C2] [3 day loan]
Christopher, Nicholas, Somewhere in the Night: Film Noir and the American
City (1997) [PN1995.9.F4C4]
Cohan, Steven, editor, The road movie book (1997) [PN1995.9 .C6] [7 day]
Collins, Max A., and James L. Traylor, One Lonely Knight: Mike Hammer's Mickey
Spillane (1984) [PS3569.P53Z5C6] [3 day loan]
Conquest, John, Trouble Is Their Business: Private Eyes in Fiction, Film and Television, 1927-1988 (1990) [P96.D38C6]
Cook, Pam, and Phillip Dodd, editors, Women and Film: A Sight and Sound Reader (1993) [PN1995.9.W6C6]
Copjec, Joan, editor, Shades of Noir: A Reader (1993) [PN 1995.9.F4C6]
[3 day loan]
Crowther, Bruce, Film Noir: Reflections in a Dark Mirror (1989)
[PN1995.9.F4C7] [7 day loan]
Darby, William, Necessary American Fictions: Popular Literature of the 1950s (1987) [PS374.P7D2] [3 day loan]
Doane, Mary Ann, The Desire to Desire: The Woman’s Film of the 1940s (1987)
[PN1993.5.W6D6] [short loan]
Doane, Mary Ann, Femmes Fatales: Feminism, Film Theory, Psychoanalysis
(1991) [PN1995.9.W6D6]
Doherty, Thomas, Projections of War: Hollywood, American Culture, and WW2 (1993)
[D743.23.T4]
Durham, Philip, Down these mean streets a man must go: Raymond Chandler's Knight (1963) [PS3505.H26Z5D8]
Fine, David, editor, Los Angeles in Fiction: A Collection of Essays: From James M. Cain to
Walter Mosely (1995) [PS374.L57F4]
Gardiner, D., and K.S. Walker, editors, Raymond Chandler Speaking (1971) [PS3505.H26Z5A1]
Gregory, Sinda J., Private Investigations: The Novels of Dashiell Hammett (1985) [PS3515.A52Z5G7] [3 day loan]
Gross, Miriam, The World of Raymond Chandler (1977) [PS3505.H26Z5G7]
Hannsberry, Karen Burroughs, Femme Noir: bad girls of film (1998) [PN1995.9 .W6H2]
Haskell, Molly, From Reverence to Rape: The Treatment of Women in the Movies (1987) [PN1995.9.W6H2]
Haut, Woody, Pulp Culture: Hardboiled Fiction and the Cold War (1995)
[PS379.H2] [7 day loan]
Hirsch, Foster The dark side of the screen: film noir (1983) [PN1995.9 .G3H4]
Hirsch, Foster, Detours and lost highways; a map of neo-noir (1999)
[PN1995.9. F54H4]
Honey, Maureen, Creating Rosie the Riveter (1984) [HQ1420.H6]
Kerr, Paul, editor, The Hollywood Film Industry (1986) [PN1993.5.U65K3]
Kaplan, E. Ann, editor, Women in Film Noir (1980; 1998) [PN1995.9.W6K2]
[3 copies]
Knight, Stephen, Form and Ideology in Crime Fiction (1980) [PR830.D3K6] [3 day loan]
Koppes, Clayton R., and Gregory D. Black, Hollywood Goes to War: how politics, profits
And propaganda shaped World War 2 movies (1988) [D743.23.K6]
Kozloff, Sarah, Invisible Storytellers: voice-over narration in American fiction film (1988)
[PN1995.9 .N2K6]
Krutnik, Frank, In a Lonely Street: Film Noir, Genre, Masculinity (1991) [PN1995.9.F4K7] [3 day loan] [2 copies]
Layman, Richard, Shadow Man: The Life of Dashiell Hammett (1981) [PS3515.A52Z5L2]
[3 day loan]
Luhr, William, Raymond Chandler and Film (1982) [PS3505.H26Z5L8]
McArthur, Colin, Underworld USA (1972) [PN1995.9.G3M2]
McCarthy, Todd and Charles Flynn, King of the Bs: Working within the Hollywood System
(1975) [PN1993.5.U65M2]
MacShane, Frank, The Life of Raymond Chandler (1976) [PS3505.H26Z5M2]
[7 day loan]
Madden, David, editor, Tough Guy Writers of the Thirties (1968) [PS379.M2]
Madden, David, James M. Cain (1970) [PS3505.A46Z5M2] [7 day loan]
Maltby, Richard, Hollywood Cinema: An Introduction (1995) [PN1993.5.U6M2]
[short loan]
Margolies, Edward, Which Way Did He Go?: Private Eye in Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, Chester Himes and Ross Macdonald (1982) [PS374.D3M2]
[3 day loan]
Marling, William, The American Roman Noir: Hammett, Cain, and Chandler
(1996) [PS374.D3M2]
-----. Raymond Chandler (1986) [PS3505.H26Z5M2]
Martin, Richard, Mean streets and Raging Bulls; the legacy of film noir in
contemporary American Cinema (1999) [PN1995.9 .F4M2] (2 copies)
Martin, Stoddard, California Writers: Jack London, John Steinbeck, the tough guys (1983) [PS283.C2M2] [7 day loan]
Muller, Eddie, Dark City: The Lost World of Film Noir (1998) [PN1995.9.F4M8]
[7 day loan]
Munby, Jonathan, Public Enemies, Public Heroes: screening the gangster from
Little Caesar to Touch of Evil (1999) [PN1995.9 .G3M8] [3 & 7 day loan]
[2 copies]
Naremore, James, More than Night: Film Noir in its Contexts (1998)
[PN1995.9.F4N2] [3 day loan] [2 copies]
O’Brien, Geoffrey, Hardboiled America: lurid paperbacks and the masters of noir (1997) [PS379.O2] [7 day loan]
Palmer, R. Barton, Hollywood’s Dark Cinema: The American Film Noir (1994) [PN1995.9.F4P2] [7 day loan]
Pawling, Christopher, Popular Fiction and Social Change (1984) [PR830.P7P2]
Porter, Dennis The Pursuit of Crime: Art and Ideology in Detective Fiction (1981) [PN3448.D4P6] [3 day loan]
Reynolds, William, It’s a Print!: Detective Fiction from Page to Screen (1994) [PN1995.3.R3]
Ruehlmann, William, Saint With a Gun: The Unlawful American Private Eye (1974) [PS374.D3R8] [3 day loan]
Selby, Spencer, Dark City: the film noir (1984) [PN1995.9.F4S3] [7 day loan]
Server, Lee, Danger Is My Business: An Illustrated History of the Fabulous Pulp Magazines (1993) [PN4878.S3]
Server, Lee, Over My Dead Body: The Sensational Age of the American Paperback (1994) [Z479.S3]
Schickel, Richard, Double Indemnity (1992) [PN1997.D6S2]
Scorsese, Martin. A personal journey with Martin Scorsese through American
movies. London Faber and Faber 1997. PN1993.5.U6S2
Shindler, Colin, Hollywood Goes to War: Films and American Society 1939-1952 (1979) [PN1995.9.S6S4]
Silver, Alain, and James Ursini, editors, Film Noir Reader (1996)
[PN1995.9.F4S4] [7 day loan]
Silver, Alain, editor, Film Noir Reader 2 (1999) [PN1995.9 .F4S4] [3 day loan]
[2 copies]
Skinner, Robert E., editor, Hard-boiled Explicator: A Guide to the Study of Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, and Ross Macdonald (1985) [Z1231.D47S4]
Speir, Jerry, Raymond Chandler (1981) [PS3505.H26Z5S7]
Spencer, Selby, Dark City: The Film Noir (1984) [PN1995.9.F4S3] [7 day loan]
Stephens, Michael L., Film Noir: A Comprehensive, Illustrated Reference to
Movies, Terms, and Persons (1995) [PN1995.9.F4S8] [3 day loan]
Symons, Julian, Dashiell Hammett (1985) [PS3515.A52Z5S9] [3 day loan]
Telotte, J.P., Voices in the Dark: The Narrative Patterns of Film Noir (1989) [PN1995.9.F4T3] [7 day loan]
Turim, Maureen, Flashbacks in film memory and history (1989)
[PN1995.9.F52T8]
Tuska, Jon, Dark Cinema: American Film Noir in Cultural Perspective (1984)
[PN1995.9.F4T8] [7 day loan]
Willett, Ralph, Hard-Boiled Detective Fiction (1992) [PS374.D3W4] [3 day loan]
Wilt, David, Hardboiled in Hollywood: Five Black Mask Writers and the Movies (1991) [PN1998.2.W4] [7 day loan]
Wolfe, Peter, Beams Falling: The Art of Dashiell Hammett (1979) [PS3515.A52Z5W6]
[3 day loan]