LINKS:
*Film noir in post-war America. Generally, I don't get a lot out of noir-ish movies (exceptions: The Maltese Falcon, Sunset Boulevard). But I take that to be a function of the success of the genre: to the extent they feel clichéd or formulaic, it's because the pace, style, and narrative structures have become thoroughly assimilated into the American conception of storytelling.
*Jane Espenson on the Secret of Selling Sci-Fi. It's not much of a secret, but she is one of the sharper television writers out there (hers is one of the few voices I can identify regardless of the show or whether I even know she's involved in it).
"Thou shalt not extinguish thine anger, but shall master it,
that thy conscience may not be blunted by adjustment
to wrong causes."
-The Dutch Ten Commandments to Foil the Nazis
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