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Jesse Slater's avatar

That's a better, and sharper distinction between the two then I've seen before. I knew that hard boiled typically referred to the written works, and Noir to the film, but had not really seen the division between the tarnished knight detective and Double Indemnity-style doomed everyman elucidated before.

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Ulysses's avatar

I was under the impression “noir” came from “roman noir” from the “serie noir” which was then later applied to films with similar themes.

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