Wednesday, November 9 2011
Batman and “Bitches”
In noir, men do bad things to women, women do bad things to men, people do bad things to each other. One of the central conceits of noir is very simple: people are creeps.
Tuesday, October 4 2011
‘All Star Western’ Is at Home, Back East
In a longstanding tradition of using company-wide shakeups to offer a new and engaging visions of Jonah Hex, All Star Western offers perhaps the sincerest reboot of the entire New 52 run.
Thursday, April 29 2010
Robert Culp: From ‘I Spy’ to ‘Hickey & Boggs’
Robert Culp and Bill Cosby's wit and warmth in I Spy also established a foundation of fragility and fatalism for Culp's despairing Hickey & Boggs.
Tuesday, September 30 2008
Reinventing the Southern California Novel: Marisa Silver’s The God of War
Silver took the vital ingredients of a regional novel and composed an L.A. tale, but set many miles east -- at the edge of the desolate Salton Sea -- a wasteland that would have held tremendous appeal to T.S. Eliot.
Monday, June 25 2007
A Nail Through the Heart by Timothy Hallinan
A Nail Through the Heart can be read as an anti-noir, eschewing the taciturn, solitary detective for a man whose only desire is to connect.
Wednesday, May 30 2007
Wall Street Noir by Peter Spiegelman [Editor]
For desperate acts, psychosexual kinks, and a pervasive sense of fatalism, there are better places to look than the office of a CFO.
