Table of Contents
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INTRODUCTION
Karen McNally
Part One: Matters of Genre
1. What Exposure Is the World? The Desert Noir of Ace in the Holev
Lance Duerfahrd
2. An Unconventional War Film: Death, Disguise and Deception in Five Graves to Cairo
Dale M. Pollock
3. Syncope, Syncopation: Musical Hommages to Europe
Katherine Arens
4. Realistic Horror: Film Noir and the 1940s Horror Cycle
Mark Jancovich
Image and Identity
5. Shame and the Single Girl: Reviving Fran and Falling for Baxter in The Apartment
Alison R. Hoffman
6. "Have They Forgotten What a Star Looks Like?" Image and Theme with Dino, Cagney and Fedora
Karen McNally
7. Phenomenological Masking: Complications of Identity in Double Indemnity
Phillip Sipiora
Part Three: Production and Reception
8. "A Small, Effective Organization": The Mirisch Company, the Package-Unit System, and the Production of Some Like It Hot
Paul Kerr
9. "Esthetically As Well as Morally Repulsive": Kiss Me, Stupid, "Bilious Billy," and the Battle of Middlebrow Taste
Ken Feil
10. Censorship, Negotiation and Transgressive Cinema: Double Indemnity, Some Like It Hot and Other Controversial Movies in the United States and Europe
Daniel Biltereyst
Part Four: Europe, America and Beyond
11. "I Don't Have a Home!" Paris Interregnum in Mauvaise graine
Leila Wimmer
12. Palimpsest: The Double Vision of Exile
Nancy Steffen-Fluhr
13. Sabrina, Hollywood and Postwar Internationalism
Dina Smith
14. Evolving Modernities: Formation of the Urban Imagination in Hindi Cinema
Sunny Singh
BIBLIOGRAPHY
ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS
INDEX
