Re: RARA-AVIS: Re: robert bloch based norman bates on woolrich?

From: sonny ( sforstater@yahoo.com)
Date: 10 Feb 2008


cool. i began thinking about it after i had wrote and sent that. generally i think of bloch as horror, but psycho certainly starts off as crime/noir and only then enters the realm of horror. but it never leaves crime. is there horror/noir?

--- JIM DOHERTY < jimdohertyjr@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Sonny,
>
> Re your comment below:
>
> "but psycho and bloch are OT, sorry. i brought it up
> because of what i'd heard about woolrich and norman"
>
> Bloch and PSYCHO are, at least arguably, noir if not
> hard-boiled. Probably not everyone would agree, but I
> think everyone would agree that at least a case could
> be made.
>
> Why then should they be regarded as off-topic?
>
> JIM DOHERTY
>
>
>
>
>
____________________________________________________________________________________
> Be a better friend, newshound, and
> know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now.
> http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ
>
>
>
> RARA-AVIS home page: http://www.miskatonic.org/rara-avis/
>
> Yahoo! Groups Links
>
>
>
>



This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : 10 Feb 2008 EST