On January 20, 2024 Clute introduced the film Mildred Pierce at the George Eastman
House in Rochester, New York, as part of their Noir Series. His talk was preceded by a Q&A with Jared
Case (Head of Cataloguing and Research Center) on several noir topics: the origins of the Out of the Past podcast; certain
underappreciated aspects of noir; how scholarly approaches to noir have limited
what we see; a new film studies paradigm he and Richard Edwards worked out in
their forthcoming book The Maltese Touch
of Evil: Film Noir and Potential Criticism, which allows them unleash and
understand other narrative potentials lurking in noir. Special thanks to Jared Case for letting us repost these audio and video files.
To listen to that conversation, please visit Out of the Past website
To see that conversation, please visit these YouTube links.