The French critics used the word "noir" already earlier
before the WWII to describe some of the films that were made
in the country, such as Marcel Carn駳 PORT OF SHADOWS. The
films were also called the poetic realism: dark, gloomy,
atmospheric, and also with a sense of doom.
I don't know who coined the term first in the thirties, but
I'd suggest everyone read James Naremore's excellent study of
the subject, MORE THAN NIGHT, which discusses largely the
birth of the definition of noir (and many of its later uses -
it's mainly about movies, though).
I know one thing where Jim Doherty was wrong. Marcel
Duhamel's line of books was Serie Noire, not Serie
Noir.
Juri http://pulpetti.blogspot.com
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