Touch of Evil

Richard Deming is a poet, art critic, and theorist whose work explores the intersections of poetry, philosophy, and visual culture. His collection of poems, Let’s Not Call It Consequence (2008), received the 2009 Norma Farber Award from the Poetry Society of America. His most recent book of poems, Day for Night,appeared in 2016. He is also the author of Listening on All Sides: Toward an Emersonian Ethics of Reading(2008), and Art of the Ordinary: the Everyday Domain of Art, Film, Literature, and Philosophy (2018). He contributes to such magazines as Artforum, Sight & Sound, and The Boston Review. His poems have appeared in such places as Iowa Review, Field, American Letters & Commentary, and The Nation. He teaches at Yale University, USA where he is the Director of Creative Writing. Winner of the Berlin Prize, he was the Spring 2012 John P. Birkelund Fellow of the American Academy in Berlin.

Engaging… It combines a blow-by-blow account of the thriller’s troubled production with a thoughtful rebuttal to Paul Schrader’s description of it as “film noir’s epitaph”, while Orson Welles’ shadow inevitably looms large.

• Preface: Touching Back on Touch of Evil.1. Noir's Epitaph 2. Scene analysis3. Characters and themes4. Final stages and legacyCreditsBibliographyIndex