The Best American Noir of the Century by James Ellroy My rating: 4 of 5 stars Not The Noir I’m Looking For I've lost count of the number of times I've read recently that Film Noir is a product of its era (1930's-40's) and that anything after that time period is simply "in the style of Film Noir". I'm not sure why this is the case... it's never been explained in any of these countless articles. But why would films like Body Heat and The Grifters, for example, NOT be Film Noir? I assume it can't simply be because they were not shot in black & white... hell, I'm not even sure all Film Noir was shot in black and white. But there you have it. Whatever the case, this book makes a good case for that definition. Billed as Best American Noir of the Century, about a third of the way in it ditches the mean streets of the city to head out into the backwoods, becoming some kind of Appalachian noir (I'm painting in...
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