Robert E. Smith teaches film study classes in the Drama dept. at the University of Connecticut in Storrs. Each semester he teaches a general intro course and an upper-level class on a different director or genre that have included Ford, Hawks, Hitchcock, Borzage, Sirk, Verhoeven, westerns, film noir, Preminger, Griffith, and musicals. 
Mann in the Dark: The Film Noirs of Anthony Mann
“The morally complex interrelationship of hero/villain, which is partially accountable for the remarkable intensity of his films, has at its roots the film noirs of the 1940s. The darker side of human nature, the interiority of these earlier, psychologically troubled characters, is the determining force in Mann’s noirs. We see the director striving for the depth and complexity of characterization he ultimately achieved in the great films of the 1950s.”
