The Maltese touch of evil
Subtitle: film noir and potential criticism
By: Shannon Scott Clute and Richard L. Edwards
Contributors: Edwards, Richard L., 1965-
Series: Interfaces: studies in visual culture
Publisher: Dartmouth College Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Hanover, N.H
Language: eng
Number of pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9781611680478; 9781611681857
Subjects: Film noir; Study and teaching; Podcasting; History and criticism
Description: Reproduces and re-sequences nearly 150 still images from 31 films, laying them out with the authors' informed and entertaining insights into the significance of each shot. The result is a de facto meta-film noir; a celebration of the genre that shows how these films are themselves constrained texts whose carefully calculated visual forms simultaneously generate narrative and critical commentary on that narrative. From publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes filmography and podcastography.
Table of contents: title: A void in film noir studies; title: One hundred thousand billion films noir: Oulipian works and potential; title: Workshop of potential criticism: anoulipism and plagiarism by anticipation; title: Build my scaffolding high: noir films as constrained texts; title: Oufinopo: the noiremes.