Re: RARA-AVIS: Hardboiled Character Traits

From: JIM DOHERTY ( jimdohertyjr@yahoo.com)
Date: 27 Apr 2002


Johnny,

Re your comment below:

> It's no wonder the Europeans
> invented the noir cinema;
> they already had the words for it: Schadenfreude,
> welschmertz, ennui

Europenas didn't invent film noir. Americans did. Europeans, specifically French critics, most specifically whoever wrote the article entitled something along the lines of "America Has Noir Films, Too," invented the name.

JIM DOHERTY

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