URI: <http://id.loc.gov/authorities/sh2002011186#concept>

Type: Topical Term

Broader Terms:

• Detective and mystery stories
• Fiction

Sources:

• Work cat.: Vintage Library WWW Site, 25 Oct. 2002: Noir Fiction page (Popularized in the 1940s and 1950s, a style in Hollywood emerged where the films where dark, suspenseful, and sinister. Within the broad crime fiction genre a category emerged that captured the dark, sinister, paranoid, psychological mystery and captured in print what the film makers captured on screen. Many of the classic movies of the Film Noir movement first were successful novels)
• Bleeker Books WWW Site, 25 Oct. 2002: Making Up the Difference page (Noir fiction originated in social realism. Works by James M. Cain, Horace McCoy, and others use realistic social backgrounds and situations to drive crime stories)

Created: 2002-10-25

Last Modified: 2002-12-04 09:11:10

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