The one personal caveat I would say is the introduction. It
is from the
school of the Journal of Popular Film and Television by
Bowling Green Press
psuedo-intellectual writing. They love the sound of their own
words. But I
did glean a qoute that I thought was a hoot.
>From the introduction of "The Big Book of
Noir":
"Cagney later contributes a rousing portrait of a gangster
with a raging
Oedipus complex in "White Heat," from the Hollywood's
misogynistic period.
Trapped on a oil storage tank, he crys exultantly: "On top of
the world,
Ma!" before joining his dead mother via the auto-destructive
orgasm of his
own personal mushroom cloud."
Buy it today. The book section is a marvelous primer to the
topics spoken here.
Joseph
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