> What's especially interesting is this family tree of
hardboiled and
> noir:
>
> http://www.mysteryfile.com/Abbott/Hardboiled.pdf
>
> I disagree with the arrangement of things in the
1950s and 1960s, but I
> couldn't do up my own version without a fair bit of
brain work. Have a
> look.
You're being too kind. It's skimpy to the point of
paper-thin, downplaying entire developments and important
relationships in the genre.
Mind you, it's possible the definition of "hardboiled" is so
tightly defined as regarding the curriculum that such a flow
chart makes sense, but even so, portraying it as a sort of a
vertical A to B to C family tree ignores the obvious lateral
influences throughout the genre -- people are influenced by
their contemporaries as well as their antecedents.
And it's even possible it's not meant to be anything more
than a sketchy overview which is fleshed out in class, but
still...
Prof. Kevin
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