February 2012 Table of Contents

ISSUE #282 February 2012

Volume 22, No. 6 ISSN #1052-9438

ESSAYS

Robert Guffey: Film Noird and the Multiple Realities Thereof: Bowery at Midnight, The Chase, and Kiss Me Deadly: 1

Takayuki Tatsumi: From Surrealism to Postmodernism: An Introduction to Chiaki Kawamata’s Death Sentences: 1

Darrell Schweitzer: Texts, Authors, and the Enduring Mystery of Edgar Allan Poe: 12

Gregory Benford: Dining with Dirac: 16

REVIEWS

John Baxter’s The Inner Man: The Life of J. G. Ballard, reviewed by Rob Latham: 7

Death Valley, written by Adam Scott Mazer, directed by Dan Rogers, reviewed by Jen Gunnels: 20

PLUS

An editorial (24).

Samuel R. Delany, Contributing Editor; Kris Dikeman and Avram Grumer, Associate Managing Editors.

David G. Hartwell, Reviews and Features Editor; Kevin J. Maroney, Managing Editor.

Staff: Ann Crimmins, Alex Donald, Jen Gunnels, Heather Masri, M’jit Raindancer-Stahl, Eugene Reynolds, and Anne Zanoni.

Weekly Crew: Lisa Padol and Christine Quiñones.

Special thanks to Arthur D. Hlavaty and Eugene Surowitz.

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