Dark BordersDark Borders connects anxieties about citizenship and national belonging in midcentury America to the sense of alienation conveyed by American film noir. Jonathan Auerbach provides in depth interpretations of more than a dozen of these dark crime thrillers, considering them in relation to U. S. national security measures enacted from the mid 1930s to the mid 1950s. The growth of a domestic intelligence gathering apparatus before, during, and after the