"Noir owes a lot to the American Naturalists."
Naturalism seems to be realism plus "the poor will always be
with us." It's looking out a train window at the houses of
the poor. Look how they live. Boy, are they (always) screwed.
Plus a dash of crime. Suddenly we are watching The Postman
Rings Twice. (Cain & his audience went slumming with
those who get thrown off the hay trucks & with Midwest
girls too slutty for Hollywood.)
Noir switches perspective, and we become the Screwed. With a
dash of Crime thrown in. The readers are still slumming, but
there's a mirror.
Anybody buy into this?
Frederick Zackel
"We nothing know, and everything must fear." ~ Voltaire
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