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Additional Readings
 The Big Sleep
Detailed description of plot with extensive quotes from dialog. http://www.filmsite.org/bigs.html

"No Place for a Woman: The Family in Film Noir and Other Essays"
by John Blaser. An outstanding collection of essays on Film Noir. Especially good is "Film Noir and the Hard-Boiled Detective Hero" http://www.obs.net/Noir/

"10 Shades of Noir"
Images: A Journal of Film and Popular Culture, November, 1996. A collection of 10 essays on outstanding Noir films. Of special interest is "The Big Sleep", by Kevin Jack Hagopian. http://www.imagesjournal.com/issue02/infocus/filmnoir.htm

"Film Noir Web Links"
Additional links to Noir information on the web. http://www.imagesjournal.com/issue02/infocus/noirlink.htm

"Raymond Chandler: Not Quite Enough"
by Steven Rubio. A study of the Chandler hero. http://garnet.berkeley.edu/~srubio/chandler.html

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