Re: RARA-AVIS: Tragedy Vs. Noir

From: Michael Robison ( miker_zspider@yahoo.com)
Date: 30 Sep 2005


Robert Elkin wrote:

I've heard from several sources (no guarantee this is correct) that the use of "noir" as a definitive comes from French criticism's treatment of Woolrich's series of "black" novels--bride wore black, black alibi, rendezvous en black, etc.--if this is so, might we not hold those texts as an index of just exactly what
"noir" might be, strictly speaking?

************** Woolrich's I Married a Dead Man is a fine example of noir. It's also a rare example of noir that isn't hardboiled.

miker

                
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