One thing that shapes our thinking about hardboiled and noir
is the influence of history. The group of hardboiled writers
that formed around Black Mask in the '20s (including Hammett,
Daly, Paul Cain, as well as editor Joseph Shaw) clearly felt
that they were part of a movement, that they were doing
something new and different.
Those writers influenced many of the writers who wrote noir
books from the late 50s through the 60s, although I would
argue that any similarities in those books (Thompson, Goodis,
etc.) were more due to social influences than any driving
"movement".
Graham
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