tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7185482420929995617.post5308815373224352803..comments2024-03-28T11:22:19.658+11:00Comments on Classic Movie Ramblings: film noir - discovery or invention?dfordoomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02306293859869179118noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7185482420929995617.post-7401541222098054542013-03-18T13:09:28.555+11:002013-03-18T13:09:28.555+11:00Well argued, but I think something is there even i...Well argued, but I think something is there even if it was largely defined in retrospect. Do you take any visual elements into account, given that noir is presumed to look a certain way? Also, in terms of influences noir is thought to have flourished during a transition in crime fiction from the hard-boiled style to the different emphases of the paperback originals, say from Cornell Woolrich to David Goodis and beyond. If something's going on in publishing it's probably going on in movies as well. Still, you're absolutely right to call critics out for sometimes reading the concerns of their own times into the works of the past.Samuel Wilsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00934870299522899944noreply@blogger.com