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What Is the Film Noir File?
Against the Hardboiled Paradigm
Repeat Performance vs. Hardboiled
Repeat Performance & Noir-O-Meter
Raw Deal & Historians’ Errors
Raw Deal vs. Hardboiled
The Leopard Man vs. Hardboiled
The Leopard Man & Fate
Hollywood Heroines
Hardboiled Sentimentality
Women’s Noirs in Reference Books
Women’s Noirs in Hardboiled Books
Published Sources: Women’s Noirs
Published Sources: Men’s Noirs
The Old Guard Changes
Spy Noirs & the Origins of Film Noir in the UK & US
Spy Noirs, UK, from Reference Books
Spy Noirs, UK, from Dan Hodges
Spy Noirs, US, from Reference Books
Spy Noirs, US, from Dan Hodges
Sherlock Holmes & Voice of Terror
Florey: First Director of Many Noirs
Spy Noirs & the First Femme Fatales
Under Secret Orders
The Spy in Black
Quiet Please, Murder
Significance of the Woman in Distress
Woman in Distress vs. Femme Fatale
Soft vs. Hard Femme Fatale
‘Twixt the Soft & Hard Femme Fatale
Vertigo
The Film Noir Private Eye: Debunking the Myth
The Film Noir PI: Made in the ’70s
The Missing PI in Film Noir
The Not Hardboiled PI in Film Noir
The Hunted Man & the PI in WWII
The Killer Client & the PI
The Sweetheart & the PI
Film Noir Plot Elements: WWII vs. Postwar
Calcutta
What Explains the Visual Style of Film Noir?
Noir Style by Natives over Émigrés
Analyses in Film Noir: The Encyclopedia
Bluebeard
Dark Waters
The Desperate Hours
Guest in the House
High Tide
Ivy
A Kiss Before Dying
The Long Night
Moss Rose
No Man of Her Own
A Place in the Sun
Second Chance
Shock
So Evil My Love
The Spiral Staircase
The Suspect
Trapped
Two O’Clock Courage
The Unfaithful
The Verdict
Walk Softly, Stranger
Whistle Stop
International Crime Film/Film Noir: 1923-1963
Other Film Noir Reviews
Daisy Kenyon
Between Midnight and Dawn
Naked Alibi
Violent Saturday
Gone
The Film Noir File
A Dossier of Challenges to the Film Noir Hardboiled Paradigm
Other Film Noir Reviews
In the following pages I critique the reviews, by historians and journalists, of several film noirs.