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Beginning in the mid-1940s, the bleak, brooding mood of film noir began seeping into that most optimistic of film genres, the western. Story lines took on a darker tone and western films adopted classic noir elements of moral ambiguity, complex anti-heroes and explicit violence. This “noir western” helped set the standard for the darker science fiction, action and superhero films of today, as well as for acclaimed TV series such as HBO's Deadwood and AMC's Breaking Bad.

Join us in welcoming David Meuel, the author of the new book, The Noir Western: Darkness on the Range 1943-1962 (McFarland, 2015) to The Silver Screen Oasis for a discussion of this intriguing development in film during the mid-20th Century. The dates are Friday July 24 and Saturday July 25 (which, incidentally, has also been designated the 11th Annual Day of the Cowboy).

Since TCM's "Summer of Darkness" project screens films noir every Friday in June and July this summer, 12,000 students have signed up for the online film noir course taught by Richard Edwards from Ball State University on Canvas, and the free course has sparked much renewed interest in the genre. Perhaps a series on Meuel's The Noir Western: Darkness on the Range 1943-1962 might be the next logical step in further focusing on film noir.

This past April, Meuel was a featured speaker at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco for its film series, Dark Horse: Film Noir Westerns.
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A lifelong student of films, he is also the author of Women in the Films of John Ford (McFarland, 2014), an in-depth examination of a fascinating, but often overlooked, facet of the iconic director’s work. Meuel lives in Menlo Park, California, and has also published two volumes of poetry.

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Immortal Ephemera:
Review of Women in the Films of John Ford:
http://immortalephemera.com/53655/women ... john-ford/
Review of The Noir Western: Darkness on the Range, 1943-1962: http://immortalephemera.com/57851/tcm-p ... pril-2015/


Barnes and Noble link to The Noir Western: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-noi ... 0786494521

The Evening Class Blogspot has an excerpt from The Noir Western: http://theeveningclass.blogspot.com/201 ... ss-on.html

The National Day of the Cowboy: http://nationaldayofthecowboy.com/wordpress/

Christy Putnam's review of Women in the Films of John Ford: http://www.examiner.com/review/women-th ... -john-ford

TCM and Ball State's Online Film Noir Course: https://www.canvas.net/browse/bsu/tcm/courses/film-noir

David Meuel's author page: http://www.amazon.com/s?ie=UTF8&page=1& ... id%20Meuel
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David' Meuel is an astute and engaging writer. I'm looking forward to this one and thanks to Christy for arranging things. If interested, you can see David Meuel's take Shirley Temple, the TCM Star of the Month in his quite original interpretation of her role in Wee Willie Winkie (1937) at the link below. This piece was drawn from his first book Women in The Films of John Ford (McFarland, 2014). The article also features more of David's non-cinematic writing too:
http://moirasthread.blogspot.com/2012/0 ... avid+meuel

Our upcoming guest discusses Two Myths about John Ford in a youtube posting here:

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Drats, I wanted to be here for this one and I'll be out of town on the 24th and won't be back home on the 26th.
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Rita Hayworth wrote:Drats, I wanted to be here for this one and I'll be out of town on the 24th and won't be back home on the 26th.
If you have any questions, perhaps you could have Christy or me ask for you, Erik? This worked okay last week.
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moira finnie wrote:
Rita Hayworth wrote:Drats, I wanted to be here for this one and I'll be out of town on the 24th and won't be back home on the 26th.
If you have any questions, perhaps you could have Christy or me ask for you, Erik? This worked okay last week.

I've might have to pass this visit due to my (family problems) Dad who got in a car accident and it's a very long and complicated story. I'll post some Gilda pictures tonight and I'll be gone the rest of the week. Sorry for not being able to participate in it. My Dad has a serious case of dementia now.
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I'm so sorry, Erik. I will be thinking of you and your family. If you think of any questions for David between now and when you leave, please let me know. I'll be happy to post them for you.
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I'm so sorry to hear about this, Erik. Please take care.
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