Introduction -- Fetishistic noir : Charles Baudelaire and Léo Malet -- Liberation noir : Boris Vian and the série noire (1) -- Allegorical noir : Boris Vian and the série noire (2) -- Noir strangulation (1) : Terry Stewart and Vernon Sullivan -- Noir strangulation (2) : Amélie Nothomb and intertextuality -- Jazz : classic French film noir as trans-Atlantic exchange -- Fatal(e) crossings : figures of the feminine in French and American film noir -- Americans in Paris -- From honest thief to media sociopath -- Double-crossings : reversing the remake