Hello All,
I've really enjoyed this thread about early noir, so thanks
to everyone who has voiced an opinion.
I'm by no means an expert on noir or hard-boiled fiction and
film, but my background in anthropology/archaeology leads me
to believe that trying to pin-point the exact origins of this
or any other genre is next to impossible. Like any other
developmental process, noir developed over a long period of
time and singling out a particular novel or short story as
the first will always be an excercise in subjectivity.
The discussion regarding whether LITTLE CEASAR is noir or not
is a perfect example of the co-existence of equally valid yet
quite different points of view. It seems we always come back
to the question of what is noir, what is hard-boiled, and how
do the two relate to each other. As long as this debate rages
on, so will the one about their origins. This of course is no
justification for giving up the chase!
Best, Harry
Quoting Michael Robison <
miker_zspider@yahoo.com>:
> Mark wrote:
>
> Of course, this is all begging the question of
whether
> noir started in novels. Or did it start in
short
> stories in the pulps before these authors
wrote
> novels?
>
> *************
> I see Cain's Postman as the beginning of the
genre.
>
> miker
>
>
>
>
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