imho, the schrader essay is incredibly arbitrary and
irritating. it's full of opinions like "the hard-boiled hero
was, in reality, a soft egg compared to his existential
counterpart" and "...the gangster films warshow wrote about
are inferior to film noir," presented totally without factual
support. it's not his opinions that get to me, it's that he
apparently felt no need whatsoever to support any of
them.
the copy i have is photocopied from FILM GENRE READER, edited
by barry keith grant. hope this helps.
martha
sakana@stlnet.com <mailto:
sakana@stlnet.com>
> -----Original Message-----
> From:
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kip.stratton@ni.com
> Also, in one of the pieces, Hunter mentions a 1972
essay written by Paul
> Schrader in which he breaks down noir into three
phases, the last
> being the
> "manic" phase. Unfortunately, Hunter doesn't mention
where
> Schrader's essay was
> published. Does anyone know? Has it been collected
in book form?
>
> Later....Kip
>
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