> 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

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