An authoritative companion that offers a wide-ranging thematic survey of this enduringly popular cultural form and includes scholarship from both established and emerging scholars as well as analysis of film noir’s influence on other media including television and graphic novels. Covers a wealth of new approaches to film noir and neo-noir that explore issues ranging from conceptualization to cross-media influencesFeatures chapters exploring the wider noir mediascape of television, graphic novels and radioReflects the historical and geographical reach of film noir, from the 1920s to the present and in a variety of national cinemasIncludes contributions from both established and emerging scholars
