Jim Doherty wrote:
To say that noir means something more than a dark and
sinister atmosphere pervading the story, and that's really
all that the books published, and being published, under the
Serie Noir logo had and have in common, is to say that the
people who coined the term...
***************** It appears that your entire argument for
how noir should be defined is based on what you perceive as
its orginal use. I'm not sure if I buy into that, but if I
did, I would point out that the term "Roman noir" was used in
the 18th century to describe Gothic novels, and the terror
and doom expressed in those books is pretty much
characteristic of what I would describe as noir.
My experience of noir is very similar to that of a fellow
named Paul Duncan, author of a thin little book entitled Noir
Fiction. I recommend it highly, especially since it agrees
with what I think. <g>
miker
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