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Michael Shepler's home-away-from-home page!

 

Michael Shepler is a Berkeley-based writer on culture and film.  His writings on topics of interest to noir buffs are below:

 

Essays

Hollywood Red: The life of Abraham Polonsky

Left noir - the underbelly of postwar America

Sagebrush Noir - The Western in film noir

 

 Poetry

Advance Man

The Barbara Payton Story

Canada

Death and the Planetarium

Film Crew, Westlake Park - 1911

Mr Sophistication

Watching Visconti

 

Reviews

Resnais' Night and Fog

 

Oscar Commentary

2004

2009