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Down these mean streets
Feb. 19th, 2010 11:08 amMore from the resource horde: The Dark Room is a gorgeous multimedia exploration of key tropes in film noir. There's still a few pages under construction, but the rest is awesome and informative.
And of course no exploration of the hardboiled genre is complete without Raymond Chandler's excellent essay, The Simple Art of Murder. The last paragraph or so is the key (and memorable) section, but the whole essay is well worth a read. (What's interesting to me is how I can see reflections of Chandler's hero in early Anita Blake novels, and how my waning interest in the series can be charted by its exponential divergence from the model.)
And of course no exploration of the hardboiled genre is complete without Raymond Chandler's excellent essay, The Simple Art of Murder. The last paragraph or so is the key (and memorable) section, but the whole essay is well worth a read. (What's interesting to me is how I can see reflections of Chandler's hero in early Anita Blake novels, and how my waning interest in the series can be charted by its exponential divergence from the model.)
