Foreword: "If only my leg didn't itch" / Mike Hodges -- Parallax views: an introduction / Mark Bould, Kathrina Glitre and Greg Tuck -- Under the neon rainbow: colour and neo-noir / Kathrina Glitre -- Audio-noir: audiovisuality in neo-modernist noir / Robert Miklitsch -- Paranoia and nostalgia: sonic motifs and songs in neo-noir / Helen Hanson -- The end of work: from Double indemnity to Body heat / Carl Freedman -- Worlds without consequences: two versions of film noir in the 1980s / Edward Gallafent -- From lonely streets to lonely rooms: prefiguration, affective responses and the Max Payne single-player / Greg Singh -- The new lower depths: Paris in French neo-noir cinema / Ginette Vincendeau -- The shadow of outlaws in Asian noir: Hiroshima, Hong Kong and Seoul / Hyangjin Lee -- British neo-noir and reification: Croupier and Dirty pretty things / Mike Wayne -- Laughter in the dark: irony, black comedy and noir in the films of David Lynch, the Coen Brothers and Quentin Tarantino / Greg Tuck -- A woman scorned: the neo-noir erotic thriller as revenge drama / Linda Ruth Williams -- Neo-noir's fatal woman: stardom, survival and Sharon Stone / Rebecca Feasey -- Fatality revisited: the problem of 'anxiety' in psychoanalytic-feminist approaches to film noir / Suzy Gordon -- The thin men: anorexic subjectivity in Fight club and The machinist / Sherryl Vint and Mark Bould -- Memento: pasting ourselves together through cinema / Deborah Thomas