Film noir, American workers, and postwar Hollywood

Let a thousand fetish objects bloom

The Home-front detective as dissident lawman (and -woman): Hammett, Chandler, Woolrich, and 1940s Hollywood

Noir part 1: socialism in one genre: wildcat strikers, fugitive outsiders, and a savage lament

Noir part 2: fugitive kinds

The McCarthyite crime film: the time of the (quasi-scientific) toad (criminal/informer/vigilante cops versus psychotic fugitives)

The neo-noirers: fugitives, surrealists, and the return of the degenerate detective

Crime films of each film noir period.

Let a thousand fetish objects bloom

The Home-front detective as dissident lawman (and -woman): Hammett, Chandler, Woolrich, and 1940s Hollywood

Noir part 1: socialism in one genre: wildcat strikers, fugitive outsiders, and a savage lament

Noir part 2: fugitive kinds

The McCarthyite crime film: the time of the (quasi-scientific) toad (criminal/informer/vigilante cops versus psychotic fugitives)

The neo-noirers: fugitives, surrealists, and the return of the degenerate detective

Crime films of each film noir period.