Introduction Steven Powell (University of Liverpool, UK) Part I: Genre and Literary Influences 1. "Tragic Power": The Influence of Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett on the Work of James Ellroy Steven Powell (University of Liverpool, UK) 2. "No Man's Land": Broken Men and Traumatized Police Officers in The Onion Field and The Black Dahlia Jim Mancall (Wheaton College, USA) Part II: Ellroy and Noir 3. "Capable of Anything": Dudley Smith's Role in Ellroy's L.A. Quartets Anna Flügge (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany) 4. "Geography is Destiny": Cinematising the City in the L.A.

Quartet Nathan Ashman (University of Surrey, UK) Part III: "America was Never Innocent": Underworld and Government Power Structures 5. Between Althusser and Foucault: Power Relations in James Ellroy's Underworld USA Trilogy Rubén Peinado Abarrio (Independent Scholar) 6. Paradoxes of Race in the L.A. Quartet Joshua Meyer (University of Western Sydney, Australia) 7. The Divine Violence of Underworld USA Rodney Taveira (University of Sydney, Australia) 8. From Paranoia to the Contrary: Plotting the Noir World of James Ellroy Woody Haut (Independent Scholar) Part IV: Ellroy and After: The Ellrovian Influence on Authors and Genre 9. ''A Pointed Demythologization": The Influence of James Ellroy's Novels on Megan Abbott's Revisionism of the Femme Fatale Diana Powell (University of Liverpool, UK) 10.

Individual and Institutionalised Corruption: The Influence of James Ellroy's L.A. Quartet on the Novels of David Peace David Bishop (Independent Scholar) and Steven Powell (University of Liverpool, UK) Bibliography Index.