On 26 March 2001, Jay Gertzman wrote:
: As a result of being reprimanded for writing about another
film, I do
: not know what the poicy is on Rara Avis regarding noire
movies.
The focus of the list is on hardboiled fiction. When people
find some hardboiled non-fiction (or photography or poetry or
drama), they often mention it, but there isn't much of it out
there. Films should be discussed in relation to fiction,
usually as a result of being adapted from a written source.
Comparing adaptations of THE MALTESE FALCON would be a
classic example. Since the focus is on the written word,
general talk of film per se, or movies written directly for
the sceen, should be avoided. There are other places to
discuss film noir in and of its own, and often, from what
I've seen, such discussion doesn't relate to source material.
Anything that does is perfectly welcome here.
The simple guideline is that the list is for talk about
hardboiled fiction and things related. If the relation is
tenuous, do a bit of work and make it stronger before sending
out the mail.
Bill
-- William Denton : Toronto, Canada : http://www.miskatonic.org/ : Caveat lector.
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