James Naremore's BFI Classic. [is] guaranteed a rewatch off the back of this succinct breakdown of its novella roots, feminist-theory legacy and 'wheels within wheels' aesthetic. Total Film
James Naremore is Chancellors' Professor Emeritus at Indiana University, USA. Among his books are The Magic World of Orson Welles (2015), Acting in the Cinema (1988), More Than Night: Film Noir in its Contexts (2008), On Kubrick (2007), Sweet Smell of Success (2010), An Invention without a Future: Essays on Cinema (2014), and Charles Burnett: A Cinema of Symbolic Knowledge (2017).