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Imogen Sara Smith
in issue 66
Past Sunset: Noir in the West
"I don't need other people. I don't need help. I can take care of me."
in issue 65
In Lonely Places: Film Noir Outside the City — "Noir films with non-urban settings exploded the idea that escape into a safer or healthier world was possible, showing how temptation and violence can attack anyone, anywhere."
in issue 64
Lee Tracy: "A Manic, Scalding Passion for Success" — "With his impish grin, twinkling eyes, and boyish blond hair, he looks like Tom Sawyer crossed with a Tammany Hall fixer."
in issue 63
Sinners' Holiday: An Ode to Pre-Code — "Code? What Code?"
in issue 62
Japanese Cinema's Uncommon Man: Tatsuya Nakadai's Dissidents, Outcasts, and Shadow Warriors — "Like Hollywood's new postwar men, he offered a multifaceted, ambivalent masculinity far from monolithic wartime ideals."
Dana Andrews: The Forties Hero and His Shadow — "It's not difficult for me to hide emotion, since I've always hidden it in my personal life." — Dana Andrews
in issue 61
Plumbing the Depths of Capitalism: On Force of Evil — "It was like going down to the bottom of the world
Homeless on the Range: The Lusty Men and the "Great American Search" — "He's always holding something back."
