Class, Crime and International Film Noir

1. Introduction: Global Fugitives — Outside the Law and the Cold War ‘Consensus’
Dennis Broe

2. Une grève, sanglante et poétique (A Strike, Bloody and Poetic): French Film Noir and the Defeat of the Popular Front
Dennis Broe

3. The Revolution that Wasn’t: Black Markets, Ressentiment, and Survival in Post-War British Film Noir
Dennis Broe

4. The Wintering of the Italian Spring: From Neorealism to Film Noir via Verdi
Dennis Broe

5. Occupy the Zaibatsu: Post-War Japanese Film Noir From Democracy to the (Re)Appearance of the (Old) New Order
Dennis Broe

6. Conclusion: Mediterranean Noir — Sunlight Gleaming Off a Battered .45
Dennis Broe

Keywords: Cultural and Media Studies, European Cinema, American Cinema, Directing, Genre, Film and Television Studies, Media Studies