André Breton's categories of "convulsive love" could probably all be traced into film noir, and one might be able to prove that the others are swirling around in the mix in some kind of tandem interplay. Nora's example of Jane Greer as "fixed-explosive" lacks one of the key nuances in OUT OF THE PAST's screenplay: that moment where she shoots Fisher (Steve Brodie) is one of surprise, both to Robert Mitchum and to the audience. Prior to that, the relationship has been in a different modality, having moved from its "veiled-erotic" beginnings into the somewhat jumbled notion of "magic-circumstantial," which refers to the spell of love that seems real but can change or shape-shift at a moment's notice.
Nora's piece focuses on uttered usages of "dynamite" in select films noirs, and makes some tenuous connections of that to the deployment of "hard-boiled" language in general. It's not long enough to function as either an academic essay or a feature-length contribution to NC, but it might have been one part of an essay that looked at "film noir elementals" with examples from the films themselves.
Unfortunately, there's been no follow-up of this type from her since this piece, and while she has (as predicted here earlier) become a contributor to the NC e-zine, the material that's appeared has been more gimmicky in its approach (diners, astrology/astrologers). Those pieces were enjoyable, since Nora is a talented writer, but they seem "under her pay grade." The path to something more useful and valuable seems to run through the blog entry that's linked below...
https://nitratediva.wordpress.com/2020/11/01/noir-dynamite/
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