Description:
Crime is bad enough in the fog of Victorian London or the inner cities of any era, but it takes on a particularly bad flavor in broad sunny daylight among palm trees. When hard-boiled crime fiction writers from Raymond Chandler to James Ellroy wrote about Los Angeles crime they established a unique genre that played out ultimately in Film Noir. That genre’s cousin is Florida Noir—the hard-edged crime stories of the otherwise soft winter playground of the southeast. This lecture will look at the history of noir writing in Florida from its beginning with Theodore Pratt and Brett Halliday to its present-day practitioners.
Bring to Class:
Location:
Online via Zoom, link will be sent via email prior to the class
Registration Cutoff Date:
Dates & Times:
5/8/2024 10:00AM - 12:00PM
