The Maltese Falcon to Body of Lies: Spies, Noirs, and Trust - Recencies Series: Research and Recovery in Twentieth-Century American Poetics

Examining twenty-eight great noir films from the earliest examples of the genre, including The Maltese Falcon, The Big Sleep, and Out of the Past, to such twenty-first-century spy films as The Good Shepherd, Syriana, and The Bourne Ultimatum, this study explores the representations of trust and commitment that noir and spy films propose.