Mr T. said:
> And you can make a noir film that
> looks like a Western (_The Shooting_, for
example)
Clint Eastwood's "Unforgiven" is a great mix of Western and
noir (and one of my favorite films). I always looked at "3:10
to Yuma" as more noir than Western also although a lot of
people would fit it more as hardboiled. "High Noon" is also a
good mix of western + hardboiled and noir.
About mixing western and noir in fiction, last year Ed Gorman
and I published a western noir issue of Hardluck Stories
that's going to be published soon with some additional
stories as a print anthology by Cemetary Dance Publications
(and with Martin Greenberg joining us as one of the
co-editors). Some of the stories are a mix of harboiled and
western, most are noir with a western setting. In my opinion,
they're all well-worth reading, but one particular noir gem
by Bentley Little titled "Hell" can be found at:
http://www.hardluckstories.com/Summer2006/Hell-Little.htm
--Dave
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