Editing Film noir (section)

==Suggested reading==
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* Auerbach, Jonathan (2011). ''Film Noir and American Citizenship.'' Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press. {{ISBN|978-0-8223-4993-8}}
* Chopra-Gant, Mike (2005). ''Hollywood Genres and Postwar America: Masculinity, Family and Nation in Popular Movies and Film Noir''. London: IB Tauris. {{ISBN|978-1-85043-838-0}}
* Cochran, David (2000). ''America Noir: Underground Writers and Filmmakers of the Postwar Era''. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press. {{ISBN|978-1-56098-813-7}}
* Dickos, Andrew (2002). ''Street with No Name: A History of the Classic American Film Noir''. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky. {{ISBN|978-0-8131-2243-4}}
* Dimendberg, Edward (2004). ''Film Noir and the Spaces of Modernity''. Cambridge, Massachusetts, and London: Harvard University Press. {{ISBN|978-0-674-01314-8}}
* Dixon, Wheeler Winston (2009). ''Film Noir and the Cinema of Paranoia''. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press. {{ISBN|978-0-8135-4521-9}}
* García Martín, J. H. (2018). La musicalización diegética de la crisis en el cine negro holliwodiense de los años 40. La música clásica como signo del conflicto. Área abierta, 18(3), 389-407. https://doi.org/10.5209/ARAB.58492
* Grossman, Julie (2009). ''Rethinking the Femme Fatale in Film Noir: Ready for Her Close-Up''. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan. {{ISBN|978-0-230-23328-7}}
* Hannsberry, Karen Burroughs (1998). ''Femme Noir: Bad Girls of Film''. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland. {{ISBN|978-0-7864-0429-2}}
* Hannsberry, Karen Burroughs (2003). ''Bad Boys: The Actors of Film Noir''. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland. {{ISBN|978-0-7864-1484-0}}
* Hare, William (2003). ''Early Film Noir: Greed, Lust, and Murder Hollywood Style''. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland. {{ISBN|978-0-7864-1629-5}}
* Hogan, David J. (2013). ''Film Noir FAQ''. Milwaukee, WI: Hal Leonard. {{ISBN|978-1-55783-855-1}}
* Kaplan, E. Ann, ed. (1998). ''Women in Film Noir'', new ed. London: British Film Institute. {{ISBN|978-0-85170-666-5}}
* Keaney, Michael F. (2003). ''Film Noir Guide: 745 Films of the Classic Era, 1940–1959''. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland. {{ISBN|978-0-7864-1547-2}}
* Mason, Fran (2002). ''American Gangster Cinema: From'' Little Caesar ''to'' Pulp Fiction. Houndmills, UK: Palgrave. {{ISBN|978-0-333-67452-9}}
* Mayer, Geoff, and Brian McDonnell (2007). ''Encyclopedia of Film Noir''. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood. {{ISBN|978-0-313-33306-4}}
* McArthur, Colin (1972). ''Underworld U.S.A.'' New York: Viking. {{ISBN|978-0-670-01953-3}}
* Naremore, James (2019). ''Film Noir: A Very Short Introduction''. Oxford: Oxford University Press. {{ISBN|978-0-19-879174-4}}
*Osteen, Mark. ''Nightmare Alley: Film Noir and the American Dream'' (Johns Hopkins University Press; 2013) 336 pages; interprets film noir as a genre that challenges the American mythology of upward mobility and self-reinvention.
* Palmer, R. Barton (1994). ''Hollywood's Dark Cinema: The American Film Noir''. New York: Twayne. {{ISBN|978-0-8057-9335-2}}
* Palmer, R. Barton, ed. (1996). ''Perspectives on Film Noir''. New York: G.K. Hall. {{ISBN|978-0-8161-1601-0}}
* Pappas, Charles (2005). ''It's a Bitter Little World: The Smartest, Toughest, Nastiest Quotes from Film Noir''. Iola, Wisc.: Writer's Digest Books. {{ISBN|978-1-58297-387-6}}
* Rabinowitz, Paula (2002). ''Black & White & Noir: America's Pulp Modernism''. New York: Columbia University Press. {{ISBN|978-0-231-11481-3}}
* Schatz, Thomas (1997). ''Boom and Bust: American Cinema in the 1940s''. Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press. {{ISBN|978-0-684-19151-5}}
* Selby, Spencer (1984). ''Dark City: The Film Noir''. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland. {{ISBN|978-0-89950-103-1}}
* Shadoian, Jack (2003). ''Dreams and Dead Ends: The American Gangster Film'', 2d ed. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. {{ISBN|978-0-19-514291-4}}
* Silver, Alain, and James Ursini (1999). ''The Noir Style''. Woodstock, N.Y.: Overlook Press. {{ISBN|978-0-87951-722-9}}
* Silver, Alain, and James Ursini (2016). ''Film Noir Compendium''. Milwaukee, WI: Applause. {{ISBN|978-1-49505-898-1}}
* Spicer, Andrew (2002). ''Film Noir''. Harlow, UK: Pearson Education. {{ISBN|978-0-582-43712-8}}
* Starman, Ray (2006). ''TV Noir: the 20th Century''. Troy, N.Y.: The Troy Bookmakers Press. {{ISBN|978-1-933994-22-2}}
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