Re: RARA-AVIS: Newsweek on noir

From: Steve Novak (Cinefrog@comcast.net)
Date: 02 Aug 2009

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    If I rember correctly somebody here was mentioning the Œdeath of noirı, or something like that recently...I guess Newsweek is taking another tack on this...

    In any case thanks Allan for the reference...

    Montois

    On 8/1/09 12:51 PM, "Allan Guthrie" <allan@allanguthrie.co.uk> wrote:

    > Article about the literary invasion of noir.
    > http://www.newsweek.com/id/209938
    > It concludes: "More likely, noir has just expanded its territory to include
    > cops and crooks and all those so-called innocent bystanders caught in the
    > crossfire. Noir isn't a genre any longer. It's claimed its place as one of
    > the twin strands of our cultural DNA, the dark side of the American Dream."
    >
    > Al
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