Out of the Past

1. Introduction: Into the Past/Out of the Past
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Part I. Symbolic

2. Film Noir as Point de Capiton: Retroactive Temporality and Symbolic Structure
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Part II. Real

3. First Interlude: A Contingent Irruption
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4. Film Noir Doesn’t Exist: Impossibility, Definition and the Point of Failure
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Part III. Imaginary

5. The Boundaries and Meaning of Noir: Suture, Metaphor and the Historical Imaginary
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Part IV. Borromean Knot

6. Second Interlude: A Knotting (SRI)
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7. The Idea of Noir: Fiction, Signifier, Genre
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8. The Moment of Concluding
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Keywords: Psychology, Personality and Social Psychology, Film Theory, Film History