@NewYorker @SheriBiesen @tnyfrontrow US critics in the late 40s used the evocative phrase "films of masculine brutality."
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@NewYorker@SheriBiesen@tnyfrontrow First Variety "film noir" ref. re fest on "postwar trend towards macabre plots."pic.twitter.com/ehfLqyLKR9
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@TomDohertyfilm@NewYorker@tnyfrontrow Nice. Thanks. Macabre plots & masculine brutality, indeed. Variety film noir:pic.twitter.com/tl2LnrbHZO
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@SheriBiesen@NewYorker@tnyfrontrow Somehow I forgot the film noir section in Higham and Greenberg's Hollywood in the 40s, pub. in1968. -
@TomDohertyfilm@SheriBiesen@NewYorker That's interesting; I didn't, either--but it's still after the end of the prime era. -
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@tnyfrontrow@TomDohertyfilm@NewYorker Wonderful shot of Aldrich with Borde & Chaumeton on 1955 Kiss Me Deadly set:pic.twitter.com/qa3WpwEFx4
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Thanks so much MT
@NewYorker: "@tnyfrontrow: Film Noir—for all its ubiquity, a peculiar term, with a strange history:http://nyr.kr/1A6z3wv -
@SheriBiesen Thank you! grateful for Blackout; the idea makes a big difference; should be central to the discussion. http://noirbooks.blogspot.com/2009/02/new-film-noir-book.html …
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@NewYorker@SheriBiesen@tnyfrontrow Film noir is not a genre. It's a movement. Like German Expressionism or Italian Neo-Realism.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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