Volume 19 Issue 3 — Special Issue Guest-Edited by Retreats from Oblivion: The Journal of NoirCon (2021)
Editorial: Noir Now More Than Ever
By Matthew Sorrento
Caution, Double Detours Ahead!: A noir classic and its 1992 remake
By Kurt Brokaw
Dreams Come Undone: Edmund Goulding’s Nightmare Alley (Criterion Collection)
By Matthew Sorrento
Return from Neo-Oblivion: Richard Fleischer’s Trapped (1949) from Flicker Alley
By Tony Williams
Where Emotions Roil but Are Not Revealed: Ossie Davis’s Cotton Comes to Harlem
By Joseph Hirsch
Trouble at Home: Darkness in the post-war
melodrama
By Christopher Sharrett
A Very Dangerous Citizen’: Abraham Polonsky,
film noir and ‘the Jewish question’
By Dean Goldberg
Philly to the Steel Pier: David Goodis’s The Burglar from novel to shooting script
By Jay A. Gertzman
The Moon Makes One Mad: The Moon in the Gutter (La Lune dans le caniveau, 1983)
By Roger Leatherwood
The Big Grab of a Heist: Any Number Can Win, from page to screen
By Brian Greene
Stalking the Stalker: Jamie Thraves adapting Patricia Highsmith’s The Cry of the Owl
By K. A. Laity
Whispers in the Mind’s Eye: Reginald Le Borg’s Calling Dr. Death (1943)
By Gary D. Rhodes
Tale of ‘The Creeper’: Hybrid noir in The House of Horrors
By Jim Towns
My Kinsman, Bulldog Drummond
By Earl Javorsky
The Other Tay Garnett Noir: Cause for Alarm
By Tiela Garnett
Interview: Eddie Muller on Dark City: The Lost World of Film Noir (revised and expanded edition, 2021) (preview)
By Zoe Kurland
Interview: Ken Bruen
By Paula Murphy
Ten Reasons Not to Announce Your Movie Deal
By Ken Bruen
Interview: Charles Ardai of Hard Case Crime
By Jake Rutkowski
Interview: Christa and Samantha Fuller on Samuel Fuller
By Ali Moosavi
Interview: Adrian Wootton of Film London
By Theresa Rodewald
Interview: Greg Giovanni and Andrew Repasky McElhinney
By Nicole Elizabeth Cook
The American Gun Mystery, and Other Classics to Come
By Otto Penzler
Parting Words: Noir on the horizon
By Lou Boxer, director of NoirCon
