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A sub-genre of noir fiction has been named "rural noir" in the US, [15] [16] and sometimes "outback noir" in Australia. [17] [18] Many rural noir novels have been adapted for film and TV series in both countries, such as Ozark, No Country for Old Men, [15] and Big Sky in the US, [19] and Troppo, The Dry, Scrublands, [17] and High Country (2024) in Australia.
Noir is a science fiction novel by K. W. Jeter, published in 1998. [1] It uses the conventions of film noir – the alienated, doomed hero, the cynical private detective , the femme fatale , universal corruption and moral breakdown – to portray a dystopian vision of capitalism run riot.
Nordic noir, also known as Scandinavian noir, is a genre of crime fiction usually written from a police point of view and set in Scandinavia or the Nordic countries. Nordic noir often employs plain language, avoiding metaphor , and is typically set in bleak landscapes.
There, a bully picks on him and then does the same to a pretty girl Nails secretly fancies. Nails’ friend Clayton Burroughs, who watches it happen, doesn’t call the police. Instead, he calls ...
Eddie Muller (born October 15, 1958) is an American author and the founder and president of the Film Noir Foundation. He is known for his books about the film noir genre, and is the host of Noir Alley on Turner Classic Movies. [3] He is also known by his moniker: the "Czar of Noir". [4]
Crime Novels, American Noir of the 1950s. New York: The Library of America, 1997, contains Pick-Up. High Priest of California/Wild Wives. New York: Beacon Books, 1956. Paperback original. Willeford would later mistakenly recall that Until I Am Dead was the original title for Wild Wives. [27]