Readings

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• “Chinatown and Generic Transformation in Recent Films”
• “Fate Seeks the Loser: Edgar G. Ulmer’s Detour”
• “Joan Crawford’s Padded Shoulders: Female Masculinity in Mildred Pierce“
• “Kill Me Again: Movement Becomes Genre”
• “Kiss Me Deadly: Evidence of a Style”
• “Kiss Me Mangled Mystery, The”
• “Le Noir et le Blanc: Hybrid Myths in Devil in a Blue Dress and LA Confidential“
• Maltese Falcon, The (excerpt, Chapter 1)
• “Notes on Film Noir”
• “Something Loose in the Heart: Billy Wilder’s Double Indemnity“ (reading cancelled)
• “Twice-Told Tales: The Rhetoric of the Remake”