Books by Dahlia Schweitzer

Examines the tradition of the private eye as it evolves in films, books, and television shows set in Los Angeles from the 1930s to the present. The book takes a closer look at narratives in which detectives travel the streets of LA, uncovering corruption, moral ambiguity, and greed, while always ultimately finding truth and redemption.

Examines outbreak narratives in film, television, and a variety of other media, putting them in conversation with rhetoric from government authorities and news organisations that have capitalized on public fears about our changing world. Dahlia Schweitzer identifies three distinct types of outbreak narrative, each corresponding to a specific contemporary anxiety.

Office Killer, the only film by Cindy Sherman, one of the twentieth century's most significant artists, has failed to be critically examined. Dahlia Schweitzer explores the film on a variety of levels, arguing that it is only through a close reading of the film that we can begin to appreciate the messages underlying all of Sherman's work.