Brad, re you query below:
"I think I'm still a bit unclear on the distinction between
'noir' and
'hardboiled.' Anyone care to elaborate?"
That's one of those questions that comes up on this list more
or less
regularly. My own take is that "hard-boiled" is an attitude
and "noir" is
a style (usually a visual style, since it originally referred
to film).
They're not necessarily mutually exclusive. "Noir" usually
refers to a
dark, depressing atmosphere. "Hard-boiled" to a tough,
colloquial
attitude. The first Philip Marlowe film, *Murder, My Sweet*
is both noir
and hard-boiled. The fifth Philip Marlowe film, 1969's
*Marlowe* with
James Garner, is hard-boiled but not noir. The 1949 suspense
film *The
Window*, told from the point of view of a little boy who
witnesses a
murder, is noir but not hard-boiled. - Jim Doherty
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