Fatal Attraction

The perfection of Leonard's volume as a teaching text made itself manifest to me not only in its wonderfully detailed analyses, but in the many moments that I found myself seamlessly entering into a discussion with them.  It's difficult to imagine a student who would not respond with enthusiasm to this cleanly and accessibly written, engaging, knowledgeable book about the film that inaugurated the genre of the "erotic thriller," and very easy to imagine it as a pleasure for interested cinephiles with a glass of wine within reach and a free evening or two.  Martha P. Nochimson, author of Dying to Belong:  Gangster Movies in Hollywood and Hong Kong, and The Passion of David Lynch:  Wild at Heart in Hollywood