Hi, Kevin: It's really meant to be a jumping off
point/conversation-provoking tool for class discussion. But,
as I said, I welcome any and all suggestions--that's why I
put it out there!
Best, Megan
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rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, Kevin Burton Smith
<kvnsmith@...> wrote:
>
>
> > 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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