Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Subjectivity, knowledge, and human nature in neo-noir -- Space, time, and subjectivity in neo-noir cinema / Jerold J. Abrams -- Blade runner and Sartre : the boundaries of humanity / Judith Barad -- John Locke, personal identity, and Memento / Basil Smith -- Problems of memory and identity in neo-noir's existentialist antihero / Andrew Spicer -- Justice, guilt, and redemption : morality in neo-noir -- The murder of moral idealism : Kant and the death of Ian Campbell in The onion field / Douglas L. Berger -- Justice and moral corruption in A simple plan / Aeon J. Skoble -- "Saint" Sydney : atonement and moral inversion in Hard eight / Donald R. D'Aries, Foster Hirsch -- Reservoir dogs : redemption in a postmodern world / Mark T. Conard -- Elements of neo-noir -- The dark sublimity of Chinatown / Richard Gilmore -- The human comedy perpetuates itself : nihilism and comedy in Coen neo-noir / Thomas S. Hibbs -- The new sincerity of neo-noir : the example of The man who wasn't there / R. Barton Palmer -- "Anything is possible here" : capitalism, neo-noir, and Chinatown / Jeanne Schuler, Patrick Murray -- Sunshine noir : postmodernism and Miami Vice / Steven M. Sanders -- Contributors -- Index.
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