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	Hardboiled - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Noir fiction is the name sometimes given to a mode of crime fiction regarded as a subset of the hardboiled style.
		The term "noir fiction" may evoke unrelenting gloom; in fact, while the work of all the major authors in the field might be characterized by a fatalistic attitude, it has been expressed in a variety of tones.
		The popular use of "noir" in the term "noir fiction" derives immediately from "film noir" as it has been used to characterize certain putatively "dark" Hollywood crime dramas and melodramas, many early examples of which were based on works by the original hardboiled writers.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hardboiled (1177 words)

	Noir - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Look up noir in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
		Noir fiction, another name for "hardboiled" crime fiction.
		Guy Noir, a recurring character (in a segment of the same title) on A Prairie Home Companion, which parodies the typical film noir detective
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Noir (109 words)

	: IKONEN : Rezension Noir Thriller Stiglegger
		Noir broke the boundaries of the conventional crime thriller and moved towards science fiction (Philip K. Dick’s ‘Blade Runner’-Story, 238; James G. Ballard, 246) and gothic horror (William Hjortsberg, 232).
		Along to these Horsley gives her own key elements of noir: ‘(i) the subjective point of view; (ii) the shifting roles of the protagonist; (iii) the ill-fated relationship between the protagonist and society (generating the themes of alienation and entrapment); and (iv) the ways in which noir functions as a socio-political critique’(8).
		Finally this basic exploration is recommended as a handbook for anyone with deeper interest in classical as well as modern crime fiction, and it may be of use for the audience of the noir and neo-noir cinema for exploring its official sources of inspiration.
	www.ikonen-magazin.de /rezension/noir_thriller.htm (1371 words)

	Film noir
		Film noir is a stylistic approach to genre films forged in depression-era detective and gangster movies and hard-boiled detective stories which were a staple of pulp fiction.
		Noir turned all this on its head, creating bleak but intelligent dramas tinged with nihilism and cynicism, in real-life urban settings, and using unsettling techniques such as the confessional voice-over or hero's-eye-view camerawork.
		It is both a pastiche and act of homage to film noir, the pulp-fiction detective movies of a bygone age.
	www.jahsonic.com /FilmNoir.html (1846 words)

	International Noir Fiction: April 2006 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		To be effective, a "noir" writer must get to the heart of a city, and also give a certain amount of the surface detail, the "map" of the city.
		The setting is exotic and interesting, and there are the elements of noir (a bleak portrait of modern life in general and the particular setting, corruption in the police force, jarring crimes, poverty and despair).
		One aspect of noir fiction that is seldom plumbed by current authors is the thinness of the veneer of civility in an entire society, rather than a narrow spectrum of an enclave such as the criminal underworld.
	internationalnoir.blogspot.com /2006_04_01_internationalnoir_archive.html (2048 words)

	What Is Noir? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		These lines, especially Serie Noire, were responsible for the French concept of noir fiction, just as Black Lizard and its editor Barry Gifford were responsible for America's use of the term.
		Noir seemed to be a perfect word to describe their work because their fiction is darker in content than traditional harboiled fiction, and it also seemed appropriate that a French word be used since the French have such a great appreciation of these writers.
		Noir fiction, in America, can be defined as a sub-genre of the Hardboiled School.
	home.comcast.net /~noirfiction/what.html (769 words)

	Noir Literature (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Noir fiction, also called hardboiled crime fiction, is a uniquely American style of writing that was established and pioneered by authors such as Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler in the 1920s and '30s.
		The primary elements that comprise classical noir fiction are an unsentimental viewpoint toward crime, violence, sex, alcohol, and drugs; gritty realism; a protagonist with an ambiguous moral code; and the femme fatale: a seductive female character who manipulates the male protagonist in order to make him unknowlingly accomplish her ulterior motive.
		Modern noir carries on many of the traditions of noir fiction written in the first half of the 20th century--an unsentimental viewpoint toward its subjects, the grittiness, the ambigous morality, crime.
	students.ou.edu /S/Alexander.D.Simmons-1 (349 words)

	Hard-Boiled
		This type of crime fiction, then, began to develop as a popular form in the aftermath of one devastating war and came to maturity in the two decades that terminate in a second world war.
		These 'compromised' investigators are key figures in the evolution of literary noir, which, as it develops in the late 1920s and the 1930s, turns to the portrayal of deeply flawed, transgressive, often criminal protagonists.
		Cain's first piece of fiction and his only novel, Fast One is the ultimate expression of Chandler's half-jesting suggestion that hard-boiled writers use the simple expedient of having a man come through the door with a gun whenever the action threatens to flag.
	www.crimeculture.com /Contents/Hard-Boiled.html (1788 words)

	University Press of Kentucky
		Noir films were frequently shot on the double and on the cheap, that is, on a tight shooting schedule and a stringent budget.
		Indeed, the term film noir has continued to be applied to a body of films that has been influenced by the noir tradition in succeeding decades.
		The milieu of film noir is a stark night world of dark angles and elongated shadows, where rain glistens on windows and windshields and faces are barred with shadows that suggest some imprisonment of body or soul.
	www.kentuckypress.com /0813121744excerpt.cfm (3307 words)

	Noir
		As Ellroy said, "Noir rules, other fiction drools." The brooding, stylized photographic techniques of Film Noir were perfect to present American pulp fiction on screen, with the cynical, paranoid themes of corruption, lust, obsession, violence, revenge and the difficulty of finding redemption in a far from perfect world.
		Noir is the closest form of literature and cinema to the dream.
		Noir searches for truth in familiar though slightly off-kilter landscapes, among people within the community, within the family or within the self.
	www.murderoutthere.com /Noir.html (1079 words)

	International Noir Fiction
		The classic statements of noir relied on greedy capitalists and bureaucrats and on a free-market of crime and morality at street level.
		His detective, his Cuba, and his noir fiction are all stuck in a politiical trap: on the one hand the decaying Cuba of the embargo and on the other hand the soul-less emigre community of fat, rich Miami.
		One of the pleasures of reading them was seeing familiar streets and places through the lens of noir fiction, but his books had considerable power from the beginning, as noir and as portraits of the Capitol area.
	internationalnoir.blogspot.com (2740 words)

	Confessions of an Idiosyncratic Mind: Never mind what, how about where is noir
		What has really happened is that the darker world of noir has been displaced in the marketplace by a different kind of crime novel: the commercial thriller (more likely on its jacket puffery to announce itself a literary thriller, though in truth that genre all but expired with Graham Greene).
		The noir tradition in which Manchette was writing had its roots in the vernacular, and focused on the crimes of desire by people hemmed in by social conditions.
		Noir writers like Dave Goodis, Jim Thompson, Dorothy Hughes, Chester Himes and Charles Williams were social determinists whose work demonstrated considerable empathy for the little guy, the down- and-outer, the outsider who has been pushed out, excluded, trapped.
	www.sarahweinman.com /confessions/2005/05/never_mind_what.html (2559 words)

	NoirTexas--Everything relating to noir fiction and film noir
		While we sell fiction of all genres and nonfiction on all subjects, my special area of interest is noir fiction.
		The noir protagonist struggles to survive in a crazy-house labyrinth of a universe, beyond any understanding or control.
		During the classic period of film noir, hundreds of movies were produced, starting with The Maltese Falcon in 1941, and ending with the Orson Welles' classic Touch of Evil in 1959.
	noirtexas.com (447 words)

	Film and Roman Noir Web Page: What is Film Noir
		There are seven elements of film noir Raymond Borde and Etienne Chauteton highlight in Panorama du Film Americain (excerpted and translated in the Film Noir Reader edited by Alain Silver and James Ursini).
		Crossfire are structured from the perspective of the police, yet this does not limit the brutal violence and perversity of the murders in Crossfire.
		So a noir may have one noir element, another film have three but not be a noir.
	www.eskimo.com /~noir/whatis.shtml (441 words)

	Bleeker Books - Making Up The Difference
		Hardboiled and noir fiction also treat the relationship of the protagonist to the other characters differently.
		Noir protagonists are usually involved from the beginning.
		Noir characters are deeply involved; their entire lives are bound up in the story, their future is determined by the outcome.
	www.bleekerbooks.com /Features/MakingUpTheDifference.asp (764 words)

	Crime Fiction and Film Noir
		This course will study the development of crime fiction from the 1930s to the 1950s in conjunction with the subsequent rise of films noir in the 1940s and the 1950s.
		After French critics first designated the term "film noir," the rise of feminist criticism was crucial to the establishment of film noir as an area of serious academic study.
		No prior knowledge of crime fiction or film studies is required--only a desire for knowledge and a willingness to express that knowledge in writing.
	web.nwe.ufl.edu /~crinne/2410/1617/syll.html (857 words)

	Links
		The Street Was Mine looks at the "tough guy" in hardboiled fiction and film noir.
		The novel Die a Little attempts to explore the same terrain in fictional form, combining hardboiled and noir themes and styles (gritty urban atmospheres, crime, femme fatales, double crosses, betrayal, guilt) with the concerns of another popular 1940s-50s genre—the domestic melodrama—which concerns itself with "women's issues" of duty, sacrifice, passion, love and shame.
		non-profit focused on the cultural, historical, and artistic significance of film noir and on preserving films in danger of being lost forever.
	www.meganabbott.com /links.htm (601 words)

	Amazon.com: Noir: Books: K.W. Jeter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Equally problematic is his tendency to assume in his reader a sophisticated knowledge of the conventions of both the noir thrillers of the 1930s and contemporary cyberpunk SF.
		For the central character in NOIR acts with a brutality that at one or two points goes far beyond the boundaries of noir and well into the territory of sadism.
		Noir is an excellent novel, particularly to those more interested in reading the book than looking for mistakes.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0553576380?v=glance (2006 words)

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		The genre was perhaps a product of the prohibition era, but it was also a reaction against the attenuated prettifications of the Conan Doyle school and an attempt to apply the literary lessons taught by such serious American novelists as Ernest Hemingway and John Dos Passos.
		Hard-boiled fiction seems to have appeared first in a magazine called the BLACK MASK (founded 1919), and its development was closely associated with the editor, Joseph T. Shaw.
		Later, hard-boiled fiction in a particularly violent phase became hugely popular in the Mike Hammer novels of Mickey Spillane.
	noirtexas.com /new_page_3.htm (1173 words)

	Film Noir and Fiction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Below is a list of books that address the relationship between film noir and hard-boiled and detective fiction that are available in the UNC library system.
		The author argues that, although film noir has connections to German expressionist cinema, the genre was mainly inspired by the work of Raymond Chandler and other hard-boiled fiction writers, including James M. Cain and Dashiell Hammett.
		He correlates the rise of film noir with the new appetites of the American public after World War II and explains how it was developed by smaller studios and filmmakers with access to limited resources to make their films.
	ils.unc.edu /dpr/path/filmnoir/fiction.htm (253 words)

	H-Net Review: Kathleen Fitzpatrick on Nice and Noir: Contemporary American Crime Fiction
		In this fashion, for Schwartz, crime fiction serves to explicate the dangers and pleasures of life in the contemporary United States.
		A study of such fiction should similarly explore those dangers and pleasures and the ways in which they construct and are constructed by the narratives in question.
		In each chapter, Schwartz encounters numerous examples of the contemporary fiction that makes use of these motifs, describing in a loose, illustrative style the authors and texts that he considers central to the genre.
	www.h-net.org /reviews/showrev.cgi?path=71651049433717 (838 words)

	Paint it Noir by Kathryn Kulpa
		Noir novelists paint a fallen universe, where murder is expected and duplicity is the coin of the realm.
		Her nail polish was chipped and broken off; a tag with her name on it was tied to one thumb; her wrists were bandaged.
		Kathryn Kulpa is a fiction writer, a former editor of Merlyn’s Pen, and a current editor of Pif.
	www.kmareka.com /free-literature-online/noir.htm (867 words)

	DOMENIC STANSBERRY - Manifesto
		And by this I do not mean the mere criminal underworld, but rather the underworld of the imagination, the secret realm of the psyche, the darkest realms of Hades that inhabit and animate the individual soul.
		The result is that crime fiction is no longer the revolutionary medium it once was, but rather propaganda for the status quo.
		It is odd indeed that some of the most recent innovative noirs have been for the most part unclaimed by aficionados of the genre, though well regarded elsewhere.
	www.domenicstansberry.com /newsletter.htm (2121 words)

	Film Noir "Fade to Black" Red Inkworks
		Film noir, occasionally acerbic, usually cynical, and often enthralling, gave us characters trying to elude some mysterious past that continues to haunt them, hunting them down with a fatalism that taunts and teases before delivering the final, definitive blow.
		Edward Dmytryk - The Father of Film Noir: One of the finest examples of film noir is Edward Dmytryk's Crossfire (1947), a tense, talky thriller shot entirely at night and recognized as the first Hollywood film to deal with the subject of racial bigotry.
		A progenitor of the film noir of the 1960's, Lang was preoccupied throughout his oeuvre with the dark side of human nature: vengeance, violence, and the criminal mind.
	www.redinkworks.com /fade_to_black.htm (2705 words)

	Pocket Essentials Guide to Noir Fiction Main Page
		Noir has infiltrated our world, like some insidious disease, and we cannot get rid of it.
		This book takes you down the dark highways of the Noir experience, and examines the history of Noir in literature, art, film, and pulps.
		As well as an introductory essay, nine of the most important noir authors are featured in more detail.
	www.pocketessentials.com /literature/1903047110noirfiction/index.php (138 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Birmingham Noir: Urban Tales of Crime and Suspense: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		‘Birmingham Noir is lightning in a bottle – dark, smoky tales of a city’s underworld lit by starkly illuminating prose and genuine insights into the human condition.
		Birmingham Noir gives the mean streets of London and LA a run for their money.
		At a time when every US writer and film-maker seems obsessed with revealing the dark underbelly of the American dream, it’s an almost-relief to read stories that agree the overside is often as grim as the underside.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0953589595 (593 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - Books: DC Noir, by George P. Pelecanos, Paperback
		George Pelecanos is a screenwriter, independent-film producer, award-winning journalist, and the author of the bestselling series of Derek Strange novels set in and around Washington, D.C., where he lives with his wife and children.
		The publisher's Noir series, launched with Brooklyn Noir (2004), is growing with viruslike rapidity--even though it's not always infectious.
		Despite Pelecanos's claim in his introduction that it's too easy to call the city polarized, rarely do the paths of the haves and the have-nots cross in these 16 tales, 10 of which have their crimes occur in the prosperous Northwest section of D.C. (Feb.) Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.
	search.barnesandnoble.com /booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?z=y&isbn=1888451904&itm=3 (452 words)

	Where to start for reading classic crime/noir fiction? \| Ask MetaFilter
		I might be in the minority with this view, but having read a bit of crime fiction I feel that you're not going to find anything in the same league as James Ellroy.
		Not exactly crime noir, but it centers on a crime and is impeccably written.
		They reprint a lot of classic noir from the 30's 40's etc. that were done by lesser known authors but deserve greater recognition.
	ask.metafilter.com /mefi/16948 (3102 words)

	Classic Noir Online: Film Noir Features.
		The Articles in Classic Noir, are orignial features written by the Classic Noir staff each month.
		We occassionally feature articles from other writers or historical pieces about the movies written at the time these films were in their first release.
		The Essays featured in Classic Noir, are orignial features written by film enthusiasts, critics, and cinema experts.
	www.classicnoir.com /features/features.html (210 words)

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