{"id":652,"date":"2012-03-26T10:16:04","date_gmt":"2015-09-16T04:06:55","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T07:00:00","slug":"the-birth-of-noir-james-m-cains-southern-california-nightmare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/2012\/03\/26\/the-birth-of-noir-james-m-cains-southern-california-nightmare\/","title":{"rendered":"The Birth of Noir: James M. Cain&#8217;s Southern California Nightmare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-bottom: 0.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 1.6em; font-family: Arial, Geneva, Webdings, sans-serif; color: #000000; font-style: normal; text-align: left;\">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 style=\"padding-bottom: 0.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 1.6em; font-family: Arial, Geneva, Webdings, sans-serif; color: #000000; font-style: normal; text-align: left;\">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<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-652\" data-postid=\"652\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-652 themify_builder\">\n    <\/div>\n<!-- \/themify_builder_content -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"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\/652"}],"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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}