That begs to the question: if MACBETH was noir, then what the
hall would you call HAMLET? After all, one of the working
definitions of noir is that your protagonist is "fucked on
page one, and things go downhill from there."
Sounds like the melancholy Dane to me.
All the Best-
Brian
----- Original Message -----
From: Michael Robison
To:
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Sent: Saturday, July 28, 2007 5:40 AM
Subject: Re: RARA-AVIS: Types of noir (was Re:
Pop. 1280)
Mario wrote:
The first psycho noir novel I know of is _The
Right
Red Hand_ by Joel Townsley Rogers. But the genre
did
exist long before, in the fantasy and sci-fi
pulps
(the work of Sturgeon, Wandrei, etc.).
***********
Shakespeare's Macbeth comes to mind. Great noir
scene
with her trying to wash the blood from her
hands.
Lots of (gratuitous?) violence, too. Bill was a
crowd
pleaser.
miker
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