Robert Elkin wrote:
I've heard from several sources (no guarantee this is
correct) that the use of "noir" as a definitive comes from
French criticism's treatment of Woolrich's series of "black"
novels--bride wore black, black alibi, rendezvous en black,
etc.--if this is so, might we not hold those texts as an
index of just exactly what
"noir" might be, strictly speaking?
************** Woolrich's I Married a Dead Man is a fine
example of noir. It's also a rare example of noir that isn't
hardboiled.
miker
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