--- In
rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, William Ahearn
<williamahearn@...> wrote:
>
>
> --- jacquesdebierue <jacquesdebierue@...>
wrote:
>
>
> >
> > In film, "noir" was
> > first applied to
> > American films,
>
> Not so. That's a complete myth. Nino Frank didn't
coin
> anything. I've documented it here:
>
> http://www.williamahearn.com/truenoir.html
>
> There were European noirs long before the
once
> unavailable US films began being shown in
France.
>
The question is whether the name "noir" was applied to film,
not whether there were (what we call) noir films before,
which of course there were. What you say doesn't tally with
what I remember about film history, but I would have to check
and right now I can't.
Best,
mrt
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