Re: RARA-AVIS: Characteristics of noir

From: Rene Ribic ( rribic@optusnet.com.au)
Date: 11 Feb 2003


----- Original Message ----- From: "Sidney Allinson" < sidneya@shaw.ca> To: < rara-avis@icomm.ca> Sent: Wednesday, February 12, 2003 10:51 AM Subject: Re: RARA-AVIS: Characteristics of noir

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Robison Michael R CNIN" < robison_m@crane.navy.mil>
> To: < rara-avis@icomm.ca>
> Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2003 1:36 PM
> Subject: RARA-AVIS: Characteristics of noir
> > I've been thinking about noir. Oftentimes the origin of noir
> > fiction is pegged in the early Thirties ...
>
> While the term "noir" itself came from the movies, as in
> "film noir." French and all that.
>
> - Sidney.
>
>
And the term "film noir" was coined (most probably) in honour of the
"Serie Noire" line of novels, published by Gallimard, that was almost exclusively devoted to hardboiled and noir novels, and is still going strong today, I believe. Round and round it goes.

Rene

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