Mario Taboada wrote: On the other hand, if we broaden the
search, noir is just a type of story and hardboiled is a type
of character and they are found everywhere...
Anyone want to put of new definitions?
******************* I have been toying with the idea that
without a contrived definition restricting noir to the 30s
and beyond, the term is so generic as to be worthless. This
is my problem with the famous Doherty definition as "dark and
sinister." It simply lets too many cats in the door. Using
this definition, Hamlet is noir. So is everything from the
Gothic tradition.
Tightening the scope in an admittedly contrived manner, noir
is the bastard child born of American Naturalism and fathered
by the hardboiled school. In it's inception it featured a
doomed criminal. LITTLE CAESAR, SANCTUARY, and SCARFACE laid
the foundation, and Cain's THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE is
the cornerstone.
miker
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