{"id":377,"date":"2010-12-20T09:28:59","date_gmt":"2015-09-16T04:06:54","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T07:00:00","slug":"esotourics-the-birth-of-noir-james-m-cains-southern-california-nightmare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/2010\/12\/20\/esotourics-the-birth-of-noir-james-m-cains-southern-california-nightmare\/","title":{"rendered":"Esotouric&#8217;s The Birth of Noir: James M. Cain&#8217;s Southern California Nightmare"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel-panel panel-col-last\">\n<div class=\"inside\">\n<div id=\"push-text-left-tourpage\" class=\"panel-pane pane-node-body\">\n<div class=\"pane-content\">\n<p>Southern California 1931: Amongst the burgeoning urban sprawl built atop  bulldozed orange groves and the  bitter realization that you can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t eat  the sunshine, recent emigr\u00c3\u00a9 James M. Cain found a kernel of truth and  his voice, which would eventually distill through his novels, \u00e2\u20ac\u009dThe  Postman Always Rings Twice,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Mildred Pierce\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Double Indemnity\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and  subsequent film adaptations into the unique American genre: Film Noir.<\/p>\n<p>How did this East Coat sophisticate go from managing editor of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The New  Yorker\u00e2\u20ac\u009d to populist novelist accused of writing dirty books? The tour  explores Cain\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s L.A. from Hollywood to Glendale and along old Route 66,  and includes illuminating visits to Forest Lawn Memorial Park (a  Glendale institution and site of the funeral of Mildred Pierce\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153other\u00e2\u20ac\u009d  daughter, Ray), the Glendale Train Station where the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Double Indemnity\u00e2\u20ac\u009d  murder plot played out, and the punch line to a Billy Wilder joke so  subtle, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s taken 63 years for anyone to get. The tour will also cover  the artisans who transformed Cain\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s tales into film, including Billy  Wilder, Raymond Chandler, Joan Crawford and Lana Turner, each an  important contributor to the Film Noir canon.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-377\" data-postid=\"377\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-377 themify_builder\">\n    <\/div>\n<!-- \/themify_builder_content -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Southern California 1931: Amongst the burgeoning urban sprawl built atop bulldozed orange groves and the bitter realization that you can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t eat the sunshine, recent emigr\u00c3\u00a9 James M. Cain found a kernel of truth and his voice, which would eventually distill through his novels, \u00e2\u20ac\u009dThe Postman Always Rings Twice,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Mildred Pierce\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Double Indemnity\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and subsequent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8,11,14,27],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}