There's also Women in Film Noir, ed. E. Ann Kaplan; the updated edition from the 1990s includes two excellent essays on the neo-noir femme fatale. And on that I recommend Christine Holmlund's "A Decade of Deadly Dolls," in Moving Targets, ed. Helen Birch. mp Mark Pizzato, PhD Dept. of Dance and Theatre Univ. of North Carolina at Charlotte Charlotte, NC 28223 Phone: (704) 687-4488 FAX: 704-687-3795 [log in to unmask] (visit www.thehungersite.com and give life with a click of your mouse) > ---------- > > My advice is to find a good book on Film Noir - there are quite a few > around. It's really too big a subject to cover comprehensively via email. > > A book to try is _The Book of Film Noir_ ed. by Ian Cameron which has > several useful essays. Also, the handful of seminal essays on noir in > _The > Film Noir Reader_ will probably be useful as well -- the classic is > Schrader's "Notes on Film Noir." The best book on the subject I've found > is > James Naremore's _More Than Night: Film Noir in its Contexts_. It may not > be the best thing for the two papers you're writing, Kristel, but it's > excellent if you feel like complicating your understanding of what you are > talking about when you're talking about film noir. > > Mikhail Gershovich > ---- To sign off Screen-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF Screen-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]