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vii Contents Preview ix Credits xxi Introduction: Sound and (Source) Music 1 Call Northside 777 • Among the Living Prologue: Small World, Big Sign 19 Out of the Past 1 House Sound: Reverb, Offscreen Sound, and Voice-Over Narration in Early RKO Noir 24 Stranger on the Third Floor • Murder, My Sweet 2 Sonic Effects: Sound and Fury in Forties Noir 53 Out of the Past • The Naked City • The Street with No Name • Mildred Pierce • The Big Sleep • Kiss of Death • The Strange Love of Martha Ivers • Night Has a Thousand Eyes • Road House • The Dark Corner • Cornered • Possessed • Railroaded! • I Walk Alone • Cat People • Double Indemnity • Nightmare Alley • The Woman in the Window • The Bribe • Leave Her to Heaven • Undercurrent • Raw Deal • This Gun for Hire • The Crooked Way • The Chase • Kiss the Blood off My Hands • The Dark Past • The Postman Always Rings Twice • Manhandled • Act of Violence • Crack-Up • Border Incident Miklitsch_pi-xxiv_fm.indd vii Miklitsch_pi-xxiv_fm.indd vii 12/8/10 4:19:55 PM 12/8/10 4:19:55 PM Contents viii 3 Audio Technologies: Intercoms and Dictaphones, Telephones and Radios, Phonographs and Jukeboxes 84 The Big Clock • Double Indemnity • Force of Evil • Sorry, Wrong Number • The Set-Up • Lady in the Lake • The Blue Dahlia • Raw Deal • White Heat • He Walked by Night • The Woman in the Window • Scarlet Street • Laura • The Unsuspected • Mildred Pierce • Black Angel • Dark Passage • The Blue Dahlia • The Locket • Detour • Fallen Angel 4 Blues in the Night: Popular and Classical Instrumental Source Music 128 Born to Kill • The Set-Up • Ride the Pink Horse • Crossfire • Brute Force • Dead Reckoning • The Dark Corner • Kiss of Death • Force of Evil • When Strangers Marry • Out of the Past • Leave Her to Heaven • Possessed • Undercurrent • Nocturne 5 Singing Detectives and Bluesmen, Black Jazzwomen and Torch Singers 164 The Naked City • House of Strangers • Key Largo • The Postman Always Rings Twice • Gilda • Moonrise • The Glass Key • House of Strangers • I Walk Alone • Road House 6 The Big Number (Side B): Killing Them Softly 192 Bewitched • Moonrise • They Live by Night • The Big Sleep • Scene of the Crime • Mildred Pierce • Race Street • The Bribe • Dead Reckoning 7 The Big Number (A Side): Siren City 222 Nora Prentiss • This Gun for Hire • Gilda • The Lady from Shanghai Epilogue: Silences 251 Out of the Past Notes 255 Index 275 Miklitsch_pi-xxiv_fm.indd viii Miklitsch_pi-xxiv_fm.indd viii 12/8/10 4:19:55 PM 12/8/10 4:19:55 PM ...

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