Marc Seals wrote:
You know, when I taught my class on noir last year, I treid
to avoid definition. Rather, I gave my students a list of
characteristics that were typical to noir-- femmes fatales,
dizzying camera angles, dark urban settings, etc. I
discovered that students tried to make these characteristics
into elements of a definition; thus, I had students writing
things like,
"This film is not noir because it lacks an effective femme
fatale."
************* Without a definition it has no meaning. The
students seeking to establish one seems perfectly reasonable
to me.
miker
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