The Noir Thriller: Research Bibliography
A bibliography of secondary sources used as the basis for Lee Horsley's Noir Thriller. More recent texts (2000-04) are to be found in the 'currently available' Crime Fiction Criticism and Crime Film Criticism sections of our Reading Lists.
Aisenberg, Nadya, A Common Spring: Crime Novel and Classic (Bowling Green, Ohio: Popular Press, 1979)
Aldiss, Brian, Trillion Year Spree (London: Paladin, 1973; 1988)
Alexander, Ric (ed), Cyber-Killers (London: Orion, 1997)
Allen, Dick and David Chacko (eds), Detective Fiction: Crime and Compromise (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1974)
Ashbrook, John, The Crime Time Filmbook: The Year in Crime Films (Harpenden, Herts.: No Exit Press, 1997)
Ashley, Bob, The Study of Popular Fiction: A Source Book (London: Pinter Publishers, 1989)
Avery, Evelyn Gross, Rebels and Victims: The Fiction of Richard Wright and Bernard Malamud (Port Washington, NY: Kennikat Press, 1979)
Bailey, Frankie Y., Out of the Woodpile: Black Characters in Crime and Detective Fiction (New York and Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1991)
Baldick, Chris (ed), The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992; 1993)
Barson, Michael S., '"There's No Sex in Crime": The Two-Fisted Homilies of Race Williams', Clues, 2, No. 2 (1981), 103-11
Bell, Ian and Graham Daldry (eds), Watching the Detectives: Essays on Crime Fiction (London: Macmillan, 1990)
Berger, Arthur Asa, Cultural Criticism (Thousand Oaks, California: Sage Publications, 1995)
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)
Binyon, T. J., Murder Will Out (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991)
Biskind, Peter, '"They Live by Night" by Daylight', Sight and Sound, 45, No. 4 (1976), 218-22
Bloom, Clive (ed), Twentieth-Century Suspense: The Thriller Comes of Age (Houndmills: Macmillan, 1990)
Bloom, Clive, Cult Fictions (Houndmills: Macmillan, 1996)
Bogdanovich, Peter, Fritz Lang in America (New York: Praeger, 1967)
Bordwell, David, 'The Bounds of Difference', in David Bordwell, Janet Staiger and Kristin Thompson (eds), The Classical Hollywood Cinema: Film Style and Mode of Production to 1960 (London: Routledge, 1985), 70-84
Botting, Fred, Gothic (London: Routledge, New Critical Idiom, 1996)
Bourdier, Jean, Histoire du Roman Policier (Paris: Editions de Fallois, 1996)
Bradbury, Malcolm and Howard Temperley, Introduction to American Studies (London: Longman, 1981; 1998)
Bradbury, Malcolm and James McFarlane (eds), Modernism 1890-1930 (Harmondsworth, Middx.: Penguin, 1976; 1985)
Bradbury, Malcolm, The Modern American Novel (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1983; 1992)
Breen, Jon L. and Martin Harry Greenberg (eds), Murder Off the Rack: Critical Studies of Ten Paperback Masters (Metuchen, NJ: The Scarecrow Press, 1989)
Broderick, Damien, Reading by Starlight: Postmodern Science Fiction (London: Routledge, 1995)
Brody, Meredith, 'Missing Persons: David Goodis' and 'Killer Instinct: Jim Thompson', Film Comment, 20, No. 5 (1984), 42-7
Brooker, Peter (ed), Modernism/Postmodernism (London: Longman, 1992)
Bukatman, Scott, Blade Runner (London: British Film Institute, 1997)
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)
Caputi, Jane, 'American Psychos: The Serial Killer in Contemporary Fiction', Journal of American Culture, 16, No. 4 (1993), 101-12
Carr, Helen (ed), From My Guy to Sci-Fi: Genre and Women's Writing in the Postmodern World (London: Pandora Press, 1989)
Cawelti, John G., 'Chinatown and Generic Transformation', in Gerald Mast and Marshall Cohen (eds), Film Theory and Criticism (New York: Oxford University Press, 1985), 503-20
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)
Collins, Jim, Architecture of Excess: Cultural Life in the Information Age (New York: Routledge, 1995)
Collins, Jim, Uncommon Cultures: Popular Cultures and Postmodernism (London: Routledge, 1989)
Collins, Max Allan and James L. Traylor, One Lonely Knight: Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer (Bowling Green, Ohio: Popular Press, 1984)
Copjec, Joan (ed), Shades of Noir (London and New York: Verso, 1993)
Cotton, Bob and Richard Oliver, The Cyberspace Lexicon (London: Phaidon, 1994)
Cranny-Francis, Anne, 'Gender and Genre: Feminist Rewritings of Detective Fiction', Women's Studies Int. Forum, 11, No. 1 (1988), 69-84
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)
Daly, Brenda O. and Maureen T. Reddy, Narrating Mothers: Theorizing Maternal Subjectivity (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1991)
Danow, David K., The Spirit of Carnival: Magical Realism and the Grotesque (Lexington, Kentucky: The University Press of Kentucky, 1995)
Davis, Mike, City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles (London: Vintage, 1990)
Davies, Philip and Brian Neve (eds)), Cinema, Politics and Society in America (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1981)
Debord, Guy, Society of the Spectacle (Detroit: Black and Red, 1983)
De Jongh, James, Vicious Modernism: Black Harlem and the Literary Imagination (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990)
Denning, Michael, Mechanic Accents: Dime Novels and Working-Class Culture in America (London: Verso, 1987)
Dick, B.F., 'Columbia's Dark Ladies and the Femmes-Fatales of Film Noir', Literature-Film Quarterly, 23, No. 3 (1995), 155-62
Diemert, Brian, Graham Greene's Thrillers and the 1930s (Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1996)
Doane, Mary Ann, Femmes Fatales: Feminism, Film Theory, Psychoanalysis (London and New York: Routledge, 1991)
Doane, Mary Ann, The Desire to Desire: the Woman's Film of the 1940s (Houndmills: Macmillan, 1987)
Docherty, Brian (ed), American Crime Fiction: Studies in the Genre (Houndmills: Macmillan, 1988)
Dooley, Dennis, Dashiell Hammett (New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing Co., 1984)
Dowdy, Andrew, The Films of the Fifties: The American State of Mind (New York: Morrow, 1973)
Duncan, Paul (ed), The Third Degree: Crime Writers in Conversation (Harpenden, Herts.: No Exit Press, 1997)
Duncan, Paul, 'It's Raining Violence: A Brief History of British Noir', Crime Time 2, No. 3 (1999)
Eden, Rick A., 'Detective Fiction as Satire', Genre, 16 (Fall 1983), 279-95
Elliott, Robert C., The Power of Satire: Magic, Ritual, Art (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1960; 1972)
Ewing, D.E., 'Film Noir: Style and Content', Journal of Popular Film and Television, 16, No. 2 (1988), 60-9
Featherstone, Mike, Consumer Culture and Postmodernism (London: Sage Publications, 1991; 1998)
Fabre, Michel, Robert E. Skinner and Lester Sullivan (compilers), Chester Himes: An Annotated Primary and Secondary Bibliography (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1992)
Fine, David (ed), Los Angeles in Fiction (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1984)
Fisher, Phillip, Hard Facts: Setting and Form in the American Novel (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987)
Flanagan, Maurice, British Gangster and Exploitation Paperbacks of the Postwar Years (Westbury, Wilts.: Zeon Books, 1997)
Flinn, Tom, 'The Big Heat and The Big Combo: Rogue Cops and Mink-Coated Girls', The Velvet Light Trap, 11 (1974), 23-8
Forbes, Jill, 'The "Série Noire"', in Brian Rigby and Nicholas Hewitt (eds), France and the Mass Media (Houndmills: Macmillan, 1993), 85-97
Freccero, Carla, 'Historical Violence, Censorship, and the Serial Killer: The Case of American Psycho', Diacritics, 27, No. 2 (1997), 44-58
Freiburger, William, 'James Ellroy, Walter Mosley, and the Politics of the Los Angeles Crime Novel', Clues: A Journal of Detection, 17, No. 2 (1996), 87-104
French, Warren (ed), The Thirties: Fiction, Poetry, Drama (Florida: Everett/Edwards, Inc., 1967; 1976)
Frohock, W. M., The Novel of Violence in America ([Dallas: Univ. Press, 1946] London: Arthur Barker, Ltd., , 1959)
Gamman, Lorraine and Margaret Marshment (eds), The Female Gaze: Women as Viewers of Popular Culture (London: The Women's Press, 1988)
Geherin, David, The American Private Eye: The Image in Fiction (New York: Ungar, 1985)
Glassman, Steve and Maurice O'Sullivan (eds), Crime Fiction and Film in the Sunshine State: Florida Noir (Bowling Green, Ohio: Popular Press, 1997)
Gorman, Ed (ed), The Black Lizard Anthlogy of Crime Fiction (Berkeley: Black Lizard Books, 1987)
Gorman, Ed, Bill Pronzini and Martin H. Greenberg (eds), American Pulp (New York: Carroll and Graf Publishers, 1997)
Goulart, Ron, Cheap Thrills: An Informal History of the Pulp Magazines (New Rochelle, NY: Arlington House, 1972)
Grimes, Larry E., 'Stepsons of Sam: Re-Visions of The Hard-Boiled Formula in Recent American Fiction', Modern Fiction Studies, 29, No. 3 (1983), 535-44
Gross, Larry, 'Film Apres Noir', Film Comment, 12, No. 4 (1976), 44-9
Grossvogel, David A., Mystery and its Fictions: From Oedipus to Agatha Christie (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1979)
Hagemann, E. R., 'Cap Shaw and His "Grreat and Regular Fellows": The Making of The Hard-Boiled Omnibus, 1945-1946', Clues, 2, No. 2 (1981), 143-52
Hantke, Steffen, '"The Kingdom of the Unimaginable": The Construction of Social Space and the Fantasy of Privacy in Serial Killer Narratives', Literature/Film Quarterly, 26, No. 3 (1998), 178-95
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)
Hoffman, Frederick J., The Twenties: American Writing in the Postwar Decade (New York: The Free Press, 1949; 1962)
Holland, Steve, The Mushroom Jungle: A History of Postwar Paperback Publishing (Westbury, Wilts.: Zeon Books, 1993)
Hoopes, Roy, Cain: The Biography of James M. Cain (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1982)
Horsley, Katharine and Lee Horsley, 'Mères Fatales: Maternal Guilt in the Noir Crime Novel', Modern Fiction Studies, 45, No. 2 (1999), 369-402
Horsley, Lee, 'Founding Fathers: "Genealogies of Violence" in James Ellroy's L. A. Quartet', Clues, 19, No. 2 (1998), 139-61
Horsley, Lee, Fictions of Power in English Literature: 1900-1950 (London: Longman, 1995)
Hubly, Erlene, 'The Formula Challenged: The Novels of P. D. James', Modern Fiction Studies, 29, No. 3 (1983), 511-21
Hutcheon, Linda, The Politics of Postmodernism (London: Routledge, 1989)
Hutton, Will, The State We're In (London: Vintage, 1995; 1996)
Inge, M. Thomas, Handbook of American Popular Literature (New York and Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1988)
Irons, Glenwood (ed), Gender, Language and Myth: Essays on Popular Narrative (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1992)
Jakubowski, Maxim (ed), The Mammoth Book of Pulp Fiction (London: Robinson, 1996)
Jakubowski, Maxim (ed), London Noir (London: Serpent's Tail, 1994)
James, Edward, Science Fiction in the 20th Century (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994)
Jayamanne, Laleen (ed), Kiss Me Deadly: Feminism and Cinema for the Moment (Sydney: Power Publications, 1995)
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Jensen, Paul, 'The Return of Dr Caligari: Paranoia in Hollywood', Film Comment, 7, No. 4 (1971-2), 36-45
Juno, Andrea and V. Vale, Re/Search: J. G. Ballard (Hong Kong: Re/Search Publications, 1984)
Kaminsky, Stuart, 'Little Caesar and Its Role in the Gangster Film Genre', Journal of Popular Film, 1 (1972), 209-227
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Kaplan, E. Ann (ed), Psychoanalysis and the Cinema (New York and London: Routledge, 1990)
Kaplan, E. Ann (ed), Women in Film Noir (London: British Film Institute, 1972)
Kaplan, E. Ann, 'Is the Gaze Male?' in Ann Snitow et al (eds), Desire: The Politics of Sexuality (London: Virago Press, 1984), 321-38
Kerr, Paul, 'Out of What Past? Notes on the B Film Noir', in Paul Kerr (ed), The Hollywood Film Industry (London: Routledge, 1986), 220-44
Kinder, Marsha, 'The Return of the Outlaw Couple', Film Quarterly, 27 (1974), 2-10;
Klein, Kathleen Gregory, The Woman Detective: Gender and Genre (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1988)
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Krutnik, Frank, 'Desire, Transgression and James M. Cain: Fiction into Film Noir', Screen, 23, No. 1 (1982), 31-44
Krutnik, Frank, In a Lonely Street: Film, Genre, Masculinity (London: Routledge, 1991)
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Lang, R., 'Looking for the Great Whatzit: Kiss Me Deadly and Film Noir', Cinema Journal, 27, No. 3 (1988), 32-44
Leary, Timothy, Chaos and Cyber Culture (Berkeley: Ronin Publishing, 1994)
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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)
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Milliken, Stephen E., Chester Himes: A Critical Appraisal (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1976)
Modleski, Tania, The Women Who Knew Too Much: Hitchcock and Feminist Theory (New York and London: Routledge, 1988)
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