Abandoned. "Detailed discussion" means something else to me than long plot synopses (sometimes even of movies that aren't the topic of the chapter), irrelevant details, repetition (do I really need to know more than once that Lancaster had blonde hair and he was a former acrobat?), glaring errors, sloppy and jumbled writing, and very little of actual analysis.

Oh, and Los Angeles as a noir setting? Only an afterthought, which is the opposite what the blurb implies.