In Lonely Places

Imogen Sara Smith has written on topics ranging from photography and painting to the films of Buster Keaton. She is a performing arts librarian and lives in Forest Hills, New York.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgments      Introduction      1. Imaginary Prisons: Noir and the City      2. In Exile at Home: Noir Between Two Worlds      3. Maximum Security: Domestic Noir      4. The Tyranny of Neighbors: Small- Town Noir      5. Blind Highways: Noir on the Road      6. Mirage of Safety: Noir on the Mexican Border      7. Lone and Level Sands: Desert Noir      8. Past Sunset: Noir Westerns      9. Private Traps: Noir in the Mind      Notes      Selected Bibliography      Index

“The author masterfully sheds light on the ‘dark passages’ that lead away from the city into the woods, the wilderness and the unconscious of a changing American landscape of the community and of the mind.”—popcultureshelf.com; “a useful guide”—Reference & Research Book News.