I've found this book useful for gender & film noir: Krutnik, Frank. In a Lonely Street: Film Noir, Genre, Masculinity. NY:= =20 Routledge, 1991. I'm sure several people will suggest this one: Clover, Carol J. Men, Women, and Chainsaws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1992. _________________________________________________________________________ | Rick Francis | "The beauty of certain assaults on moral | [log in to unmask] | convention or on life itself is that they | Dept of Comp Lit, Box 1107 | mark with all their violence the | Washington University | monstrosity of laws, the constraints that | St. Louis, MO 63130 | create monsters." |____________________________| . --Ren=8E Crevel