My first reaction to Dennis' question about hardboiled
architecture in L.A. is to say that L.A. is probably one of
those places which has urban renewed the hardboiled setting,
sort of analogous to the comment that neo-noir takes place in
daylight, mostly (ie.The Player).
...which in turn raises the question of whether we will
always associate hardboiled or noir with period settings (as
in Chinatown)--which is to say, for all of our discussion of
contemporary hb writers, something in us perhaps says it's
got to be or be similar to the feel of certain receding
decades of the 20th Century. Is there a risk, in other words,
of hb or noir fiction becoming
"about" a historical period, much as the Western (even
revisionist Western) seems to be? (Is this list really about
nostalgia?)
Thanks, Dennis, for helping us see who we really
are....:)
Bill Hagen
billha@ionet.net
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