ARTICLES
‘Thrills and chills’: horror, the woman’s film, and the origins of film noir
By Marc Jancovich
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Film death and the failure to signify: the curious case of Warni Hazard
By George Toles
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Looks that kill: Double Indemnity (1944) reimagined in postmodern neo-noir and television
By Michael Lipiner and Yael Maurer
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Film bleu: the development of cinematic aesthetics and disavowal of cultural traditions in Hong Kong crime cinema
By Yi Sun
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Phantom ladies: the war worker, the slacker and the ‘femme fatale’
By Marc Jancovich
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Bluebeard meets Ivy: the botany of love in Paul Thomas Anderson’s Phantom Thread
By Sina Movaghati
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Paris, city of shadows: French crime cinema before the New Wave
By Tim Palmer
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Orson Welles: an auteur of the thriller
By Gabriel M. Patz
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Conflicted selves: the humanist cinema of Nuri Bilge Ceylan
By James Harvey-Davitt
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Digital afx: digital dressing and affective shifts in Sin City and 300
By Aylish Wood
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‘From grade B thrillers to deluxe chillers’: prestige horror, female audiences, and allegories of spectatorship in The Spiral Staircase (1946)
By Tim Snelson
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Realism, revisionism and visual style: The French Connection and the New Hollywood policier
By Paul Ramaeker
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Depths of black in The Night of the Hunter
By Elliott Logan
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Midsomer Murders in Copenhagen: the transnational production of Nordic Noir-influenced UK television drama
By Eva Novrup Redvall
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Imagining the post-forensic landscape: the crime drama on transnational television
By Paolo Russo and Lindsay Steenberg
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REVIEWS
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Dark borders: film noir and American citizenship
Review by Brian E. Butler
by Jonathan Auerbach, Durham, Duke University Press, 2011, 281 pp., £15.99, ISBN: 9780822394129
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Critical theory and film: rethinking ideology through film noir
Review by Hunter Vaughan
by Fabio Vighi, London, Continuum, 2012, 184 pp., £65 (hardback), ISBN: 9781441111425