Pulp Fiction to Film Noir

Movie historian and writer William Hare is a contributor to Films of the Golden Age. He has also written for the Los Angeles Examiner and the Inglewood Daily News. He lives in Spain.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionOne. Film Noir and the Great DepressionTwo. The Hammett Touch and a Huston LaunchingThree. Raymond Chandler and His Symphony of the StreetsFour. Captain Joseph Shaw and the Flowering of Film NoirFive. Horace McCoy’s Dance MarathonSix. Chandler’s Blueprint for Mystery and His Career in HollywoodSeven. The Outsider and Film NoirEight. Bogart’s Dark Passage and Moorehead’s Blockbuster PerformanceNine. Berlin and Vienna, Film Noir InfluencesTen. Siodmak’s Phantom FemmesEleven. Billy Wilder and Alcoholism NoirTwelve. Preminger’s Noir Touch with Fallen Angel and Alice FayeChapter NotesBibliographyIndex

“Hare takes readers on a tour of film noir, its dark settings, its brooding, almost anti-hero heroes…Hare provides a sense of film noir both in terms of what appeared on screen and the actors, directors, authors, and others who made it possible”—Reference & Research Book News.