Frederick Zackel wrote:
I have been lurking during this discussion of transcendence,
and I kept wanting to bring up religion. I don't know how you
can mumble about Western Civ and any element of it without
bringing up religion's 3000-year overwhelming
stranglehold.
So, methinks, a noir protagonist thinks with his
willie, and that dooms him. Noir is about morality. The
inevitability is, well, judgment day. I look at noir writers
and I see religion oozing from them like January maple
syrup.
************** I think the relationship between religion and
noir has come up a few times. Noir plays to some of the major
themes and motifs in the Bible. Femmes fatale, temptation,
betrayal, doomed protagonists, and bad endings, the Bible has
got em all.
miker
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