Introduction 1 Fetishistic Noir: Charles Baudelaire and Léo Malet
Notes Introduction 1. David Bellos, for example, is loath to pin down Tati as a symptom of French- ness. David Bellos, Jacques Tati: His Life and Art (London: The Harvill Press, 1999). 2. We might think of David Harvey’s Paris, Capital of Modernity (New York; London: Routledge, 2003) or Patrice Higonnet’s Paris, capitale du monde: Des Lumières au surréalisme (Paris: Tallandier, 2006). 3. We should like to acknowledge our debt here to Ross Chambers, whose work on Loiterature has had such an impact on our conceptualization of modernity, and whose language (of ‘dogging’ and ‘haunting’) is so difficult to go past. 4. James Naremore, More Than Night: Film Noir in its Contexts (Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 1998). 5. Woody Haut, Pulp Culture: Hardboiled Fiction and the Cold War (London: Serpent’s Tail, 1995), and Neon Noir: Contemporary American Crime Fiction (London: Serpent’s Tail, 1999). 6. Geoffrey O’Brien, Hardboiled America: Lurid Paperbacks and the Masters of Noir (New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1981). 1 Fetishistic Noir: Charles Baudelaire and Léo Malet 1. We are deliberately using fetish terminology as expounded by Ellen Lee McCallum, whose work we return to in later chapters. 2. For the Surrealists, Objective Chance describes an event that appears to be random when considered objectively, that is from an outsider’s perspec- tive. When considered subjectively, however, it is deemed to be driven by unconscious desires that are eventuating in the ‘real world’. 3. Le Chagrin et la pitié, Marcel Ophuls’s documentary of the Occupation, was first released in Paris on 5 April 1971.
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