On 10/27/05, George C. Upper III wrote:
>
> Without any desire to re-open the can of worms
containing the elusive
> definitions of these terms, I wanted to ask regular
readers of these
> genres why we read them. Do the vicarious
experiences of noir heroes /
> anti-heroes provide a release for the fear and pity,
a la Aristotle's
> Poetics, that we normally bottle up? Are such works
"mere"
> entertainment, in the sense of escapism? Do they
somehow inform us
> about the true nature of the world in which we live?
Or do we, perhaps
> perversely, wish we lived in a world like those of
our hard-boiled
> heroes?
The view from over here is that hb/noir is subversive...it
creates a sort of dialogue with the darker side of things,
and yet, because of its nature, it's fun to read...cheap
thrills. Subversion and cheap thrills...it doesn't get any
better.
Tribe
-- http://tribe.textdriven.com/blog Tribe's Blog
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