Please note that I added book title to the subject line in
order not to turn off people who may be tired of that word
"noir." Yesterday while in the library I accidentally came
across a book with the title American Noir and couldn't
resist pulling it off the shelf and bringing it home. I just
checked the archives to see if it had ever been mentioned and
all I could find was a couple of list members asking about it
in 2000. They got no response.
The book is by David Cochran, who taught history and
government at Shawnee Community College in Illinois. It's
subtitled Underground Writers and Filmakers of the Postwar
Era. Part one covers Roman Noir Authors with emphasis on Jim
Thompson and Charles Willeford. Part two is titled Progess
and its Discontents: Science Fiction and Fantasy Authors. Ray
Bradbury and Charles Beaumont are featured. Part three is
titled Outside Looking In: Minority Artists (Chester Himes
and Patricia Highsmith). Part four looks at independent
filmmakers and Samuel Fuller and Roger Corman are featured.
The final part is titled Cracks in the Consensus: Liberal
Artists (Richard Condon and Rod Serling).
Looks to me like a book that would interest a number of list
members. It was published by Smithsonian Institute Press in
2000.
Kent Morgan
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