Recommended reading - Film Noir Reader (1996):

Film Noir Reader

Edited by Alain Silver and James Ursini.

Published 1996.

Published by Limelight.

Paperback.

ISBN-10: 0879101970

ISBN-13: 978-0879101978

Description:

This bountiful anthology combines all the key early writings on film noir with many newer essays, including some published here for the first time. The collection is assembled by the editors of the Third Edition of Film Noir: An Enclyclopedic Reference to the American Style, now regarded as the standard work on the subject.