I had the joy of teaching a Crime Noir unit about four years ago at a
local university. I finished the course with Chinatown (the movie). We
also looked at the variations Hollywood put on Chandler for Bogart and
Bacall, etc. A fun unit that had zero drop out rate, not surprising.
One blind student came directly from a tough prison in Sydney: he
thought that because he was a minor crim and had shared life with
tough crims he could therefore write crime fiction. With all the good
will in the world he wasn't going to make it. But he did all right
with the girls, I can tell you. Maybe it was research ...
Andrew
2009/6/3 Bradley Omanson <[log in to unmask]>:
> I expect they did, as the teacher discussed the sonnets in the context of Chandler, Hammett and 40s & 50s film noir. And when several students emailed me directly about the poems, I referred them to those same sources.
>
>
> ---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
> From: Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]>
> Reply-To: "Poetryetc: poetry and poetics" <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2009 08:51:30 -0600
>
> Hope that class had to read at least one Chandler or Hammett, or even
> better, a 50s Gold Medal paperback.....
>
> Doug
> On 1-Jun-09, at 3:59 PM, Bradley Omanson wrote:
>
>> Just learned that a high school English class in Richmond Virginia
>> spent a whole class period discussing my unfinished & unpublished
>> 'Hard-boiled Sonnets'.
>>
>> (he pulls a mostly empty bottle of Old Tom Turkey from beneath a
>> pile of unpaid bills and drinks a heartfelt toast to all the under-
>> appreciated English teachers in America....)
>>
>>
>> hard-boiled sonnets
>> http://www.scuttlebuttsmallchow.com/boiled.html
>>
>
> Douglas Barbour
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Andrew
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