Out of the Past links:      

Grist, Leighton. "Out of the Past: a.k.a. Build My gallows High," 203-212 in Cameron, Ian. The Book of Film Noir. New York: Continuum. 1992. 
 New College Library PN 1995.9.F54B66 1993 (on order)

http://www.filmmonthly.com/Noir/Articles/OutOfThePast/OutOfThePast.html
[Weston's brief discussion of Out Of The Past as perhaps the best film noir made.  Discusses structuralism and the significance of dark/light patterns in the film.]

http://www.filmsite.org/outo.html
[Dirks' five page review gives a plot outline but also talks about narration and quotes chunks of dialogue.]

http://www.moderntimes.com/palace/past.htm
[Focuses on a subject central to the group: the distruction of a basically good man, and therefore the relationship between males and females.  Lists the entire cast and locations, which is useful.]

The following bibliography is listed on http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/Noirbib.html#past 6/9/2005

Daniel Mainwaring Discusses 'Out of the Past'." Velvet Light Trap, Fall 1973 , vol 10: pp: 44+

Deutelbaum, Marshall.

"'The Birth of Venus' and the Death of Romantic Love in Out of the Past." Literature/ Film Quarterly, vol. 15 no. 3. 1987. pp: 190-197.

Harvey, John.

"Out of the Light: An Analysis of Narrative in Out of the Past." Journal of American Studies, vol. 18 no. 1. 1984 Apr. pp: 73-87.

Jones, Kent.

"Out of the Past." (review) The Village Voice, Mar 4, 1997 vol. 42. pp: 65+

Krutnik, Frank.

In a Lonely Street: Film Noir, Genre, Masculinity. London: Routledge, 1991.

Luhr, William.

"Border crossings in Out of the Past and L.A. Confidential." Bilingual Review/La revista bilingue (Arizona State Univ. at Tempe) (23:3) 1998, 230-6. (1998)

Maxfield, James F.

"Out of the Past: The Private Eye as Tragic Hero." New Orleans Review, vol. 19 no. 3-4. 1992 Fall-Winter. pp: 69-75.

Mills, Michael.

"Out of the Past: Jacques Tourneur's Classic Film Noir" (from: Modern Times web site)

Orr, Christopher.

"Genre Theory in the Context of the Noir and Post-noir Film." Film Criticism v22, n1 (Fall, 1997):21 (17 pages).

Erotic crime drama, first filmed in the 1940s, is a sub-genre of film noir and influenced films for the next four decades. Sexual desire is central to this sub-genre, with the blockage of that desire resolved within or outside of the law. 'Out of the Past' described a social crisis and constituted a critique of that crisis, while 'Angel Face' and 'Out of the Past - Against All Odds' dealt with the same issues but drifted into melodrama.

Part of a special issue on film genres. The writer discusses genre theory in the context of film noir and post-noir film. He illustrates the difficulties encountered in attempting to apply a generic category or categories to films now seen as film noir by focusing on noir films with particularly similar narrative structures--Out of the Past by Jacques Tourneur (1947) and Angel Face by Otto Preminger (1952)--as well as on Taylor Hackford's remake of Out of the Past--Against All Odds (1984), which was influenced by the noir tradition. He argues that, although all three films fall into the femme fatale narrative type, where the male protagonist is the victim of his desires, Angel Face and Against All Odds drift beyond this category into the generic field of melodrama. Focusing on these films' texts, he goes on to discuss the differences between them as subgenres of the crime film.

Schwager, J.

"The Past Rewritten: How Screenwriters Re-wrote the Film Noir Classic 'Out of the Past" Film Comment, 1991 Jan-Feb,

Telotte, J. P.

"The Woman in the Door: Framing Presence in Film Noir." In: In the Eye of the Beholder: Critical Perspectives in Popular Film and Television / edited by Gary R. Edgerton, Michael T. Marsden, and Jack Nachbar. pp: 137-48. Bowling Green, OH: Bowling Green State University Popular Press, c1997.

Warren, Denise.

"Out of the Past: Semiotic Configurations of the Femme Fatale in Film Noir." Interdisciplinary Journal for Germanic Linguistics and Semiotic Analysis vol. 2 no. 2. 1997 Fall. pp: 221-55.

Wittenberg, Judith Bryant.

"The 'Strange World' of Blue Velvet: Conventions, Subversions and the Representation of Women." In: Sexual Politics and Popular Culture / edited by Diane Raymond. pp: 149-57 Bowling Green, Ohio: Bowling Green State University Popular Press, c1990.