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Thursday, 31 July 2025

Strangely More Seductive



        Noir is premised on the audience's need to see failure risked, courted, and sometimes won ; the American dream becomes a nightmare, one strangely more seductive and euphoric than the optimism it repudiates ....... Noir provided losing with a mystique.

Ann Douglas
Vanity Fair
2007

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Noir City publications

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