> I'm partial to hard-boiled as a style and noir as a
setting ...
>
>>> Simply put I believe "Hardboiled" refers to
the written word
>>> while "Noir" refers to films.
I think it is true that Noir is generally used for film and
hardboiled for fiction but I think it goes further than that.
Noir carries with it a sophistication that hardboiled
rejects--or pretends to rejects.
Or that sophistication may be added to our reading of
hardboiled literature after we have seen the films. Would
Laura read the same way if one had not seen the film
first?
Sharon
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