Padraic Killeen is a media scholar and arts journalist. He holds a doctorate in film from Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, where he has taught on Film Noir, European Cinema, and Digital Film. He has also lectured in Film and Digital Cultures at NUI Galway, Ireland. He is a keen video essayist and digital humanist; his video essays on film have appeared in [in]Transition and Frames Cinema Journal. His research interests include iconography, intertextuality, and adaptation.

• AcknowledgmentsList of FiguresIntroductionThe Interval as a Philosophical Concept (Prelude) 1. The ‘Dark Interval’ in Noir: From Iconography to Affect 2. The Passion of Ed Crane: Narrative Dissolution, Zero Affect, and Beatitude in The Man Who Wasn’t There 3. Vesperal Noir: Intervallic Suspension in Cat People 4. Saving Those Who Weep: The Interval of Affective Rupture in Alphaville 5. 2046: Orphic Lingering in the Dark Interval (Or, What Becomes of Lemmy’s Cigarettes) 6. Outside The Law: The Long Goodbye, Temporal Lapse, and Force-of-Law 7. Missing Persons and Deadbeats: Abiding in the Dark Interval 8. Coda: Passion at the Impasse – Noir in TransitBibliographyIndex

Film noir, Padraic Killeen argues, is a cinema of missing persons. It is around this condition of missingness, gleaned from intervallic moments of inertia and irruption, passivity and passion, arrest and absorption, that this perceptive and philosophically probing study gracefully pivots. Through an eclectic and innovative montage of theories and films that effortlessly transcends the discursive constraints of genre, period and style, The Dark Interval presents a fresh and conceptually rich prism that brings out a paradoxically redemptive light from the shades of noir.

Padraic Killeen is a media scholar and arts journalist. He holds a doctorate in film from Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, where he has taught on Film Noir, European Cinema, and Digital Film. He has also lectured in Film and Digital Cultures at NUI Galway, Ireland. He is a keen video essayist and digital humanist; his video essays on film have appeared in [in]Transition and Frames Cinema Journal. His research interests include iconography, intertextuality, and adaptation.

• AcknowledgmentsList of FiguresIntroductionThe Interval as a Philosophical Concept (Prelude) 1. The ‘Dark Interval’ in Noir: From Iconography to Affect 2. The Passion of Ed Crane: Narrative Dissolution, Zero Affect, and Beatitude in The Man Who Wasn’t There 3. Vesperal Noir: Intervallic Suspension in Cat People 4. Saving Those Who Weep: The Interval of Affective Rupture in Alphaville 5. 2046: Orphic Lingering in the Dark Interval (Or, What Becomes of Lemmy’s Cigarettes) 6. Outside The Law: The Long Goodbye, Temporal Lapse, and Force-of-Law 7. Missing Persons and Deadbeats: Abiding in the Dark Interval 8. Coda: Passion at the Impasse – Noir in TransitBibliographyIndex

Film noir, Padraic Killeen argues, is a cinema of missing persons. It is around this condition of missingness, gleaned from intervallic moments of inertia and irruption, passivity and passion, arrest and absorption, that this perceptive and philosophically probing study gracefully pivots. Through an eclectic and innovative montage of theories and films that effortlessly transcends the discursive constraints of genre, period and style, The Dark Interval presents a fresh and conceptually rich prism that brings out a paradoxically redemptive light from the shades of noir.

Padraic Killeen is a media scholar and arts journalist. He holds a doctorate in film from Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, where he has taught on Film Noir, European Cinema, and Digital Film. He has also lectured in Film and Digital Cultures at NUI Galway, Ireland. He is a keen video essayist and digital humanist; his video essays on film have appeared in [in]Transition and Frames Cinema Journal. His research interests include iconography, intertextuality, and adaptation.

• AcknowledgmentsList of FiguresIntroductionThe Interval as a Philosophical Concept (Prelude) 1. The ‘Dark Interval’ in Noir: From Iconography to Affect 2. The Passion of Ed Crane: Narrative Dissolution, Zero Affect, and Beatitude in The Man Who Wasn’t There 3. Vesperal Noir: Intervallic Suspension in Cat People 4. Saving Those Who Weep: The Interval of Affective Rupture in Alphaville 5. 2046: Orphic Lingering in the Dark Interval (Or, What Becomes of Lemmy’s Cigarettes) 6. Outside The Law: The Long Goodbye, Temporal Lapse, and Force-of-Law 7. Missing Persons and Deadbeats: Abiding in the Dark Interval 8. Coda: Passion at the Impasse – Noir in TransitBibliographyIndex

Film noir, Padraic Killeen argues, is a cinema of missing persons. It is around this condition of missingness, gleaned from intervallic moments of inertia and irruption, passivity and passion, arrest and absorption, that this perceptive and philosophically probing study gracefully pivots. Through an eclectic and innovative montage of theories and films that effortlessly transcends the discursive constraints of genre, period and style, The Dark Interval presents a fresh and conceptually rich prism that brings out a paradoxically redemptive light from the shades of noir.