Out of the Past and Into the Night: The Noir Vision in American Culture

Interdisciplinary Humanities features all things noir in its Spring 2016 issue edited by Doré Ripley and featuring an interview with TCM's Eddie Muller and articles by renown noir scholars including Geoffrey Green and Sheri Chinen Biesen.

The full issue is available via EBSCO host data bases.

Featured articles include: The Infinite Night by Doré Ripley
   
Scream to Screen: The Philosophical and Aesthetic Origins of Film Noir by William F. Burns
 
The Film Noir Doppelgänger: Alienation, Separation, Anxiety by Ed Cameron
   
Photo Essay: The Role of Locations in Film Noir Movies by Brian Hollis
   
Joseph H. Lewis and the Changing Noir Vision of American Culture from Gothic Heroines to Cold War Gangsters by Sheri Chinen Bisen
 
Reviving Noir: An Interview with Eddie Muller by Doré Ripley
   
"Why Do You Make Me Do This?": Spectator Empathy, Self-Loathing Lawmen, and Nicholas Ray's Noir Vision in On Dangerous Ground by Kevin Henderson
   
The Lady from Shanghai: A Re-Working of the Noir Standard by Austin Pidgeon
 
Choosing "between the morality of the law and the morality of Simple justice": The Intersections of Culture, Justice, and National Identity in Orson Welles's Touch of Evil (1958) by Geoffrey Green
 
Advocating Incredulity: Orson Welles, Film Noir, and the Suspension of Belief by Ezekiel Crago
 
Black Widow, Gender Criticism, and the Narrative Agency of the Femme Fatale by Larry T. Shillock
 
Cool Girls and Bad Girls: Reinventing the Femme Fatale in Contemporary Fiction by Kenneth Lota
 
Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight Trilogy as a Noir View of American Social Tension by Patrick Kent Russell

This issue features many new visions of classic noir and is a great way to review the current criticism of a timeless genre, type, or style.