A.N.Smith (ansmith@netdoor.com)
Sun, 3 Oct 1999 13:50:52 -0500
I use hardboiled and noir interchangeably, but recogize that
"noir" is more a movie term for a particular style of film
that often adapted crime novels or were centered on
criminals. Hardboiled, though, seems a worldview and style
that sprung from writing, just with a funny name. You see the
style outside of crime--Hemingway, Jean Rhys, maybe even as
far back as Steven Crane, and perhaps carried into the spare
prose of the minimalists in the 80s. But generally, crime
fiction stemming from Hammett, yada, yada. Because of the
inspiration of film on new writers, it sounds fine to use
noir to describe writing, too.
It's Cain who said, "I belong to no school, hardboiled or
otherwise."
Neil Smith
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