The front cover features a full bleed still of Orson Wells in the 1949 film The Third Man. 
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The table of contents, as well as all chapter landings, feature full bleed imagery in the background. In this case, the image is a still from the 1950 classic,  Sunset Boulevard.  
Every section of the book uses this strip format to show the contents of each chapter. Since the table of contents for the book itself shows the sections, I decided to use the historical photos that are used as backgrounds for each section as the im
For each section, the left page gives some historical background for the time period, as well as what was going on in film noir. The body copy is in Courier to emulate a film script.  On the right are strips showing what films are focused on w
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Each film, with the exception of Citizen Kane , was given a spread. Every spread gives the reader basic information about the film, such as the director and cast, and when applicable, the academy awards the films were nominated for and/or won.&nbsp
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This page from the Sunset Boulevard  spread features a photo collage of three stills all from the same scene at the end of the film. The stills were arranged in a way to show progression throughout the scene from top to bottom.
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At the end of each section is a timeline showing when the films were released on the top and important historical events on the bottom. The timeline itself was made to look like a strip of silver nitrate film.
The final section of the book covers neo-noir films, which are films that meet the criteria to be called noir, but were created after the golden age of film noir ended. This is the only section in the book to use full color stills to show the change
The back cover features a still of Robert Mitchum in the film The Night of the Hunter , along with a paragraph about film noir.
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