Acknowledgements Introduction Fetishistic Noir: Charles Baudelaire and Léo Malet Liberation Noir: Boris Vian and the Série Noire (1) Allegorical Noir: Boris Vian and the Série Noire (2) Noir Strangulation (1): Terry Stewart and Vernon Sullivan Noir Strangulation (2): Amélie Nothomb and Intertextuality Jazz: Classic French Film Noir as Trans-Atlantic Exchange Fatal(e) Crossings: Figures of the Feminine in French and American Film Noir Americans in Paris From Honest Thief to Media Sociopath Double-Crossings: Reversing the Remake Bibliography Index