I read this article about film noir in today's paper, and thought of you.

I hadn't seen that! I continue to disagree with the emphasis placed on the figure of the femme fatale (attention to changing gender roles, yes; that the woman is always monstrous or dangerous, no), but some of the rest of the analysis is very interesting to me. Thank you.

Among the many things I did not know about film noir: the label was coined by someone writing in French (yes, in retrospect completely obvious).

Yes! It was a really interesting selection, too.