Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Illustrations Chapter 1. Introduction: The Dark Side and Hitchcock's Early Noirs - R. Barton Palmer and Homer B. Pettey Chapter 2. The 39 Steps (1935) and the Hard-Boiled Tradition - Homer B. Pettey Chapter 3. Hitchcock's Gothic Noir ( Rebecca [1940] and The Birds [1962]): Haunted and Haunting Women and Les Oiselles Fatales - Julie Grossman Chapter 4. The Americanization of Hitchcock: The Precariousness of Democratic Agency in War Noir - Alan Woolfolk Chapter 5.

Suspicion (1941): A Noir Woman's Film - Florence Jacobowitz Chapter 6. Unhitched: Joan Harrison's Noir Marriage Plots - Mark Osteen Chapter 7. Noir Americana Aesthetics in Shadow of a Doubt (1943) - Elisabeth Bronfen Chapter 8. What's Love Got to Do with It? Reading Spellbound (1945) Through Marnie (1964) in the Time of #MeToo - Thomas Leitch Chapter 9. Designing the Notorious Woman: Costume, Characterisation and Star Persona in the Fabrication of the 'Femme Fatale' - Helen Hanson Chapter 10. The In-Between of Stage and Screen: Rope (1948), Stage Fright (1950), and Dial M for Murder (1954) - Bruce Isaacs Chapter 11. Upending Noir in Strangers on a Train (1951) - Lee Clark Mitchell Chapter 12. I Confess (1953): Hitchcock and the "Great Darkness" - Jim Leach Chapter 13.

Crossfire of Knowledge: Noir and Tropical Dualism - Murray Pomerance Chapter 14. The Wrong Man (1956): Hitchcock's Contribution to the Noir "Film of Fact" Production Cycle - R. Barton Palmer Chapter 15. The Midge Ending: Vertigo (1958) and The Role of the Third Woman - Jans B. Wager Chapter 16. Territorial Imperative: the Dark Landscape of the Body in Psycho (1960) and Frenzy (1972) - Jennifer L. Jenkins Chapter 17. The Weak Link in the Chain: Copenhagen and Cold War Noir in Hitchcock's Torn Curtain (1966) and Topaz (1969) - Ian Scott Chapter 18.

Epilogue - Rear Window (1954) and North by Northwest (1959) - Homer B. Pettey and R. Barton Palmer Chapter 19. Bibliography Index.