: and while noir certainly reflects a visual style in film,
the French
: refered to the genre as "black" more for its nihilistic
philosophy
: rather than because most of works of the original era were
filmed in
: black and white.
I thought the critics coined the term film noir to go with
Serie Noir,
the series of books which was the place, IIRC, where
Woolrich's Black
books were all printed. Etienne can no doubt clear this up,
if no-one
else can.
French books, like those from Gallimard, all had white
covers, didn't
they? If Serie Noir books had black covers they must have
really
stood out.
Bill
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