Tag: noir
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Extraordinary Paranormal Noir
A blog called Film Noir of the Week reviews Séance On A Wet Afternoon, saying: This is the story of a mentally unstable woman who believes that she communicates with the dead. Her hubris demands that she control and improve her fate, and so she turns to crime in order to satisfy her goals. Séance on…
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Burning Man
I thought Steve Aylett was joking when one of the characters in his phosphorescent noir-action novel, Novahead, says that a character in Charles Dickens’ Bleak House died from spontaneous human combustion. I have obviously never read Bleak House. David Perdue tells us that “Dickens sparked controversy in Bleak House when he had a rag and bone dealer named Krook die…
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Thomas Pynchon’s Inherent Vice: Feds, Heads, and Threads
The books of Thomas Pynchon are so chock-full of cool references, I had to make two collages for this blog entry. Pynchon is one of my favorite writers. I recently read his noir-hippie novel, Inherent Vice (The Penguin Press, New York, 2009). The term “inherent vice” is a legal term that refers to physical properties of…