Re: RARA-AVIS: origins of noir

From: Don Lee ( donthepoet@yahoo.com)
Date: 18 Sep 2007


I've wanted to ask you about this for days and days, but for a little while after I signed on, I couldn't post for some reason...anyway, what is your definition of "noir" (either film or novel), and have you already written up the essay on the origins of the term? Sorry if I've missed the obvious links offered.

best, Don

--- William Ahearn < williamahearn@yahoo.com> wrote:

>
> --- Don Lee < donthepoet@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > The trick for me, or problem rather, with tracing
> > the
> > roots of noir, is roughly parallel to the
> arguments
> > tracing the origins of science fiction back to
> > Cyrano
> > de Bergerac--or worse, to the Greeks.
>
> I agree with everything you've said here. What
> remains
> however is that there are utterly erroneous notions
> of
> where the term came from and how and I thought that
> needed to be cleared up. That's about the size of
> it.
>
> William
>
> Essays and Ramblings
> <http://www.williamahearn.com>
>
>
>
>
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