The Noir Thriller: Teaching Bibliography
A bibliography intended for students of film noir and literary noir. More recent texts (2000-02) are to be found in the 'currently available' Crime Fiction Criticism and Crime Film Criticism sections of our Reading Lists.
Bailey, Frankie Y., Out of the Woodpile: Black Characters in Crime and Detective Fiction (New York and Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1991)
Bell, Ian and Graham Daldry (eds), Watching the Detectives: Essays on Crime Fiction (London: Macmillan, 1990)
Bergman, Andrew, We're in the Money: Depression America and its Films (New York: Harper and Row, 1971)
Bernstock, Bernard (ed), Essays on Detective Fiction (London: Macmillan, 1983)
Bloom, Clive (ed), Twentieth-Century Suspense: The Thriller Comes of Age (Houndmills: Macmillan, 1990)
Bloom, Clive, Cult Fictions (Houndmills: Macmillan, 1996)
Buss, Robin, French Film Noir (London and New York: Marion Boyars, 1994)
Cameron, Ian (ed), The Movie Book of Film Noir (London: Studio Vista, 1992)
Cawelti, John G., Adventure, Mystery and Romance: Formula Stories as Art and Popular Culture (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1976)
Chibnall, Steve and Robert Murphy (eds), British Crime Cinema (London: Routledge, 1999)
Christopher, Nicholas, Somewhere in the Night: Film Noir and the American City (New York: The Free Press, 1997)
Clarens, Carlos, Crime Movies: From Griffith to the Godfather and Beyond (London and New York: Secker and Warburg/Norton, 1980)
Copjec, Joan (ed), Shades of Noir (London and New York: Verso, 1993)
Cranny-Francis, Anne, Feminist Fiction: Feminnist Uses of Generic Fiction (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1990)
Crowther, Bruce, Film Noir: Reflections in a Dark Mirror (London: Columbus Books, 1988)
Davis, Mike, City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles (London: Vintage, 1990)
Doane, Mary Ann, Femmes Fatales: Feminism, Film Theory, Psychoanalysis (London and New York: Routledge, 1991)
Docherty, Brian (ed), American Crime Fiction: Studies in the Genre (Houndmills: Macmillan, 1988)
Dooley, Dennis, Dashiell Hammett (New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing Co., 1984)
Glassman, Steve and Maurice O'Sullivan (eds), Crime Fiction and Film in the Sunshine State: Florida Noir (Bowling Green, Ohio: Popular Press, 1997)
Grossvogel, David A., Mystery and its Fictions: From Oedipus to Agatha Christie (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1979)
Haut, Woody, Neon Noir: Contemporary American Crime Fiction (London: Serpent's Tail, 1999)
Haut, Woody, Pulp Culture and the Cold War (London: Serpent's Tail, 1995)
Hawkins, Harriet, Classics and Trash: Traditions and Taboos in High Literature and Popular Modern Genres (New York and London: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1990)
Hilfer, Tony, The Crime Novel: A Deviant Genre (Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press, 1990)
Hiney, Tom, Raymond Chandler: A Biography (London: Vintage, 1997)
Hirsch, Foster, Film Noir: The Dark Side of the Screen (San Diego: A.S. Barnes, 1981)
Holland, Steve, The Mushroom Jungle: A History of Postwar Paperback Publishing (Westbury, Wilts.: Zeon Books, 1993)
Jayamanne, Laleen (ed), Kiss Me Deadly: Feminism and Cinema for the Moment (Sydney: Power Publications, 1995)
Kaplan, E. Ann (ed), Women in Film Noir (London: British Film Institute, 1972)
Klein, Kathleen Gregory, The Woman Detective: Gender and Genre (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1988)
Knight, Stephen, Form and Ideology in Crime Fiction (London: Macmillan, 1980)
Kracauer, Siegfried, From Caligari to Hitler: A Psychological History of the German Film (Princeton University Press, 1947; 1974)
Krutnik, Frank, In a Lonely Street: Film, Genre, Masculinity (London: Routledge, 1991)
Marling, William, The American Roman Noir: Hammett, Chandler, Cain (Athens, GA: Univ of Georgia P, 1995)
Martin, Richard, Mean Streets and Raging Bulls: The Legacy of Film Noir in Contemporary American Cinema (Lanham, MD: The Scarecrow Press, 1997)
Maxfield, James F., The Fatal Woman: Sources of Male Anxiety in Film Noir, 1941-1991 (Madison, Wis.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1996)
McArthur, Colin, Underworld USA (London: Secker and Warburg, 1972)
Messent, Peter (ed), Criminal Proceedings: The Contemporary American Crime Novel (London: Pluto Press, 1997)
Metress, Christopher (ed), The Critical Response to Dashiell Hammett (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1994)
Modleski, Tania, The Women Who Knew Too Much: Hitchcock and Feminist Theory (New York and London: Routledge, 1988)
Most, Glenn W. and William W. Stowe (eds), The Poetics of Murder: Detective Fiction and Literary Theory (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1983)
Munby, Jonathan, Public Enemies, Public Heroes: Screening the Gangster from Little Caesar to Touch of Evil (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999)
Munt, Sally R., Murder by the Book? Feminism and the Crime Novel (London and New York: Routledge, 1994)
Naremore, James, More Than Night: Film Noir in its Contexts (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998)
O'Brien, Geoffrey, Hardboiled America: Lurid Paperbacks and the Masters of Noir, expanded edn. (New York: Da Capo Press, 1997)
Ousby, Ian, The Crime and Mystery Book: A Reader's Companion (London: Thames and Hudson, 1997)
Palmer, Jerry, Thrillers: Genesis and Structure of a Popular Genre (London: Edward Arnold, 1978)
Palmer, R. Barton (ed), Perspectives on Film Noir (New York: G. K. Hall and Co., 1996)
Palmer, R.B., Hollywood's Dark Cinema: The American Film Noir (New York, Twayne: 1994)
Polan, Dana, Power and Paranoia: History, Narrative and the American Cinema, 1940-1950 (New York: Columbia University Press, 1986)
Porter, Dennis, The Pursuit of Crime: Art and Ideology in Detective Fiction (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1981)
Priestman, Martin, Crime Fiction from Poe to the Present (Plymouth: Northcote House, 1998)
Pronzini, Bill and Jack Adrian (eds), Hard-Boiled: An Anthology of American Crime Stories (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995)
Reddy, Maureen T., Sisters in Crime: Feminism and the Crime Novel (New York: Continuum Books, 1988)
Rennison, Nick and Richard Shephard (eds), Waterstone's Guide to Crime Fiction (Brentford, Middx.: Waterstone's Booksellers Ltd., 1997)
Richardson, Carl, Autopsy: An Element of Realism in Film Noir (Metuchen: Scarecrow Press, 1992)
Rubin, Martin, Thrillers (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999)
Seltzer, Mark, Serial Killers: Death and Life in America's Wound Culture (New York: Routledge, 1998)
Server, Lee, Ed Gorman and Martin H. Greenberg, The Big Book of Noir (New York: Carroll and Graf Publishers, 1998)
Shadoian, Jack, Dreams and Dead Ends: The American Gangster/CrimeFilm (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1977)
Silver, Alain and Elizabeth Ward (eds), Film Noir (London: Secker and Warburg, 1979; 1992)
Silver, Alain and James Ursini (eds), Film Noir Reader (New York: Limelight Editions, 1996; 1999)
Soitos, Stephen F., The Blues Detective: A Study of Afro-American Detective Fiction (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1996)
Symons, Julian, Bloody Murder, From the Detective Story to the Crime Novel: A History (London: Pan, 1972; 1992)
Telotte, J.P., Voices in the Dark: The Narrative Patterns of Film Noir (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1989)
Thomson, David, America in the Dark: Hollywood and the Gift of Unreality (London: Hutchinson, 1978)
Tuska, Jon, Dark Cinema: American Film Noir in Cultural Perspective (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1984)
VanDover, J. K. (ed), The Critical Response to Raymond Chandler (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1995)
Walker, Ronald G. and June M. Frazer (eds), The Cunning Craft: Original Essays on Detective Fiction and Contemporary Literary Theory (Macomb: Western Illinois University Press, 1990)
Willett, Ralph, The Naked City: Urban Crime Fiction in the USA (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1996)
Winks, Robin W. (ed), Detective Fiction: A Collection of Critical Essays (Woodstock, VT: Countryman Press, [1980]; 1988)
Wood, Robin, Hitchcock's Films Revisited (London: Faber and Faber, 1989)
Woods, Paula L., Spooks, Spies and Private Eyes: An Anthology of Black Mystery, Crime, and Suspense Fiction of the 20th Century (Edinburgh: Payback Press, 1996)
Zizek, Slavoj, Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Lacan (But Were Afraid to Ask Hitchcock) (London and New York: Verso, 1992)
Zizek, Slavoj, Looking Awry: An Introduction to Jacques Lacan through Popular Culture (Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 1992)
