----- 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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