When I was an undergraduate at Iowa State University in the
late 80s, I took courses in both mystery fiction and film
noir (we actually got to watch films, rather than video). The
mystery course was focused primarily on more traditional
mystery--Ellery Queen, Rex Stout, etc.--though we did read
John D. McDonald and it was my first introduction to Tony
Hillerman (_The Fly on the Wall_).
I still vividly remember watching Orson Welles' _Touch of
Evil_ in the film noir class--it is still one of my favorite
films and one of the few I can watch again and again without
its losing any of its power. The instructors for the film
class were Leland Pogue and Charles L. P. Silet, whose names
I've since seen on a number of books and articles on mystery
films and writers (one of them had an interview with James
Ellroy in _Armchair Detective_ magazine some years
back).
Craig Larson Trinidad, CO
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