• Encyclopedias (8) • Dictionaries (3) • Essays (17) • Film Reviews (6) • Studies (62) • Interviews (1) • Stories (3) • Photos (3) • Didactic (1)
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Encyclopedia of Television Noir, 1949-2024 (2026)
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Jack the Ripper FAQ (2017)
All That's Left to Know about the Infamous Serial Killer
Publisher: Applause Books
A Comprehensive Encyclopedia of Film Noir (2013)
The Essential Reference Guide
by John Grant
Publisher: Applause Books
Film Noir FAQ (2013)
All That's Left to Know About Hollywood's Golden Age of Dames, Detectives and Danger
Publisher: Applause Books
British Film Noir Guide (2011)
Publisher: McFarland & Co
The Film Noir Encyclopedia (2010)
by Alain Silver, Elizabeth Ward, James Ursini and Robert Porfirio
Publisher: Overlook
Film Noir (2006)
A Comprehensive, Illustrated Reference to Movies, Terms and Persons
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Historical Dictionary of Film Noir (2010)
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Neo-Noir as Post-Classical Hollywood Cinema (2021)
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Film Noir and the Possibilities of Hollywood (2021)
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Darkly Perfect World (2020)
Colonial Adventure, Postmodernism, and American Noir
by Stanley Orr
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Urban Noir (2017)
New York and Los Angeles in Shadow and Light
Dir. James J. Ward and Cynthia J. Miller
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Film Noir Compendium (2016)
Key Selections from the Film Noir Reader Series
by Alain Silver
Publisher: Applause Books
Fatalism in American Film Noir (2013)
Some Cinematic Philosophy
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
The Millennial Detective (2011)
Essays on Trends in Crime Fiction, Film and Television, 1990–2010
Dir. Malcah Effron
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Roots of Film Noir (2022)
Precursors from the Silent Era to the 1940s
by Kevin Grant
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Three Faces Of Noir Curse Crime Cringe (2025)
Film Noir In The Public Domain Vol IV
Publisher: Bent Banana Books
Liminal Noir in Classical World Cinema (2025)
Dir. Elyce Rae Helford and Christopher Weedman
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Greek Film Noir (2024)
Dir. Anna Poupou, Nikitas Fessas and Maria Chalkou
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
American Film Noir Genres, Characters, and Settings (2023)
Publisher: Lexington Books
The Essence of Film Noir (2022)
The Style and Themes of Cinema's Dark Genre
by Diana Royer
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Street with No Name (2021)
A History of the Classic American Film Noir
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
I Died a Million Times (2021)
Gangster Noir in Midcentury America
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Murder and the Movies (2020)
Publisher: Yale University Press
Film Noir Prototypes (2018)
Origins of the Movement
by Alain Silver and James Ursini
Publisher: Applause Books
Jazz and Cocktails (2017)
Rethinking Race and the Sound of Film Noir
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Jack the Ripper in Film and Culture (2016)
Top Hat, Gladstone Bag and Fog
by Clare Smith
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
International Noir (2016)
by Homer B. Pettey and R. Barton Palmer
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
The Maltese Falcon to Body of Lies (2015)
Spies, Noirs, and Trust
Publisher: University of New Mexico (UNM) Press
American Neo-Noir (2015)
The Movie Never Ends
by Alain Silver and James Ursini
Publisher: Applause Books
Dashiell Hammett and the Movies (2014)
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
America Is Elsewhere (2013)
The Noir Tradition in the Age of Consumer Culture
by Erik Dussere
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Street with No Name (2013)
A History of the Classic American Film Noir
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
(previous edition)
Nightmare Alley (2013)
Film Noir and the American Dream
by Mark Osteen
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
The New American Crime Film (2012)
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Pulp Fiction to Film Noir (2012)
The Great Depression and the Development of a Genre
by William Hare
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Mickey Spillane on Screen (2012)
A Complete Study of the Television and Film Adaptations
by Max Allan Collins and James L. Traylor
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Screening the Mafia (2010)
Masculinity, Ethnicity and Mobsters from The Godfather to The Sopranos
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Film Noir (2009)
Hard-Boiled Modernity and the Cultures of Globalization
by Jennifer Fay and Justus Nieland
Publisher: Routledge
Film Noir and the Cinema of Paranoia (2009)
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Film Noir and the Cinema of Paranoia (2009)
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
(previous edition)
Unless the Threat of Death Is Behind Them (2008)
Hard-Boiled Fiction and Film Noir
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Cornell Woolrich from Pulp Noir to Film Noir (2006)
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Film Noir and the Spaces of Modernity (2004)
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Early Film Noir (2003)
Greed, Lust and Murder Hollywood Style
by William Hare
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Moving Targets (1994)
Women, Murder, and Representation
by Helen Birch
Publisher: University of California Press
Screen Sirens Scream! (2009)
Interviews with 20 Actresses from Science Fiction, Horror, Film Noir and Mystery Movies, 1930s to 1960s
by Paul Parla and Charles P. Mitchell
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Eddie Muller's Noir Bar (2023)
Cocktails Inspired by the World of Film Noir
by Eddie Muller
Publisher: Running Press
The Big Book of Reel Murders (2019)
Stories that Inspired Great Crime Films
Dir. Otto Penzler
Publisher: Vintage Books
The Maltese Touch of Evil (2011)
Film Noir and Potential Criticism
by Shannon Scott Clute and Richard L. Edwards
Publisher: Dartmouth College Press
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The Haunted Present (2026)
Slavic Neo-Noir Cinema and Television
Dir. Elena Prokhorova, Alexander Prokhorov and Rimgaila Salys
Alfred Hitchcock and Film Noir (2024)
The Darker Side
Dir. R. Barton Palmer and Homer B. Pettey
Subject: Director > Alfred Hitchcock
The Films of Jesús Franco, 1953–1966 (2024)
by Francesco Cesari and Roberto Curti
Subject: Director > Jesús Franco
From the Moment They Met It Was Murder (2024)
Double Indemnity and the Rise of Film Noir
by Alain Silver and James Ursini
Subject: One Film > Double Indemnity
Joan Crawford in Film Noir (2024)
The Actress as Auteur
by David Meuel
Subject: Actress > Joan Crawford
Hollywood's Melodramatic Imagination (2021)
Film Noir, the Western and Other Genres from the 1920s to the 1950s
by Geoff Mayer
Subject: Genre > All Genres
Honor Among Thieves (2021)
The Cinema of Jean-Pierre Melville
Subject: Director > Jean-Pierre Melville
Hong Kong Dark Cinema (2019)
Film Noir, Re-conceptions, and Reflexivity
Moseby Confidential (2019)
Arthur Penn's Night Moves and the Rise of Neo-Noir
Subject: One Film > Night Moves
Tech-Noir (2017)
The Fusion of Science Fiction and Film Noir
by Paul Meehan
Subject: Genre > Science Fiction
Charles McGraw (2012)
Biography of a Film Noir Tough Guy
by Alan K. Rode
Subject: Actor > Charles McGraw
Hitchcock with a Chinese Face (2004)
Cinematic Doubles, Oedipal Triangles, and China's Moral Voice
Creatures of Darkness (2000)
Raymond Chandler, Detective Fiction, and Film Noir
Subject: Others persons > Raymond Chandler
The Gangster Film (1998)
The Overlook Film Encyclopedia
Dir. Phil Hardy
Subject: Genre > Gangster films
The Gorgon's Gaze (1991)
German Cinema, Expressionism, and the Image of Horror
by Paul Coates, William Rothman and Dudley Andrew
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