Just checked e-mail as I leave Toronto after a wonderful
weekend there
(merci Bill for your tips): I never heard of une/la jaune for
the French policier but it is true that they are called
Giallo in italian....and if I¹m not mistaken it is because of
the color of the cheap pulp paper...I¹ll check in more
serious references when I¹ll be back at home...I do remember
though that some editions of French papers in 40¹s, 50¹swere
called Œla violette¹
(the purple one) or la verte (the green one) and it had to do
with the treatment of the paper and the quality of each
different chemical treatment and that in certain cases they
simply printed on lesser grade paper which had therefore a
certain color hue...I specifically remember a sports weekly
of my youth (late 50¹s) with many pictures, that regurlarly
came in purple or green hues called Miroir Sprint...
Voilம.
Steve le Montois de D鴲oit
On 8/22/04 22:12, "William Denton" <
buff@pobox.com> wrote:
> I'm passing on another question from Toni
Johnson-Woods, the Australian
> academic. Drop her a quick note if you know the
answer.
>
> | From: Dr Toni Margaret JOHNSON-WOODS <
t.johnsonwoods@uq.edu.au>
> |
> | Could you please ask the pundits who know all
--I've read somewhere that
> | une jaune (French) and un giallo (Italian) are
shorthand for "pulp
> | fiction" ie mass produced fiction of the 1940s,
1950s ie Carter Brown
> | and ilk (not nec pulp magazine fiction)? Can
anyone confirm? deny?
> | Second, does anyone know if there are other names
ie German, Spanish
> | etc??? Probably private replies are
best???
> |
> |
> | Thanks so much.
> | Dr Toni Johnson-Woods
> | Contemporary Studies
> | University of Queensland
> | Australia.
>
>
> Bill
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