BREAKING NEWS FOR SUMMER 2008:

NEWEST EPISODES!

OUT OF THE PAST: INVESTIGATING FILM NOIR
EPISODE 46: THIEVES HIGHWAY (WITH SPECIAL GUEST, EDDIE MULLER)  

Thanks to listener support, Out of the Past: Investigating Film Noiris a featured podcast at iTunes, has generated nearly 200,000 downloads worldwide, and has a per-episode audience of over 4,000. With such a record of success, Clute and Edwards are now able to reach out to a wide range of noir scholars, to use the program as a forum to broaden public discourse on the enduring importance of this distinctively American film style. May's guest is the Czar of Noir, Eddie Muller. Eddie is the Founder and President of the Film Noir Foundation, and the man who organizes the Noir City Film Festival in San Francisco. He is also the author of three superlative studies of film noir (Dark City, Dark City Dames, and The Art of Noir) and two supernal throwback hard-boiled novels (The Distance and Shadow Boxer). Eddie's selection is the 1949 Jules Dassin Film THIEVES' HIGHWAY. To find out more about the Noir City film festival, go to www.noircity.com. For more on the Film Noir Foundation, visit www.filmnoirfoundation.org.
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"BEHIND THE BLACK MASK: MYSTERY WRITERS REVEALED " JUNE 2007:

EPISODE 24:
JONATHAN SANTLOFER REVEALED

Jonathan Santlofer is an artist and author of exceptional talent, a master of virtually any visual or linguistic medium. His work has been displayed in fine galleries around the world, and his art-themed crime fiction has drawn comparisons to the work of Michael Connelly. He is the author of five novels, three starring NYPD detective turned art historian Kate McKinnon (THE KILLING ART, COLOR BLIND, THE DEATH ARTIST) and two featuring NYPD sketch artist Nate Rodriquez (ANATOMY OF FEAR and THE MURDER NOTEBOOK). He joins Clute and Edwards in June to discuss this last title, a June release from William Marrow. For more information on his fiction, or to experience his stunning artwork (some of which is incorporated into his novels), visit Jonathan's elegant, flash-driven website: www.jonathansantlofer.com

OTHER NEWS:

CLUTE AND EDWARDS PAY HOMAGE TO FEMALE NOIR IN A HELL OF A WOMAN  

A Hell of a Woman is the hottest anthology of female noir you can lay your hands on.  Published by Busted Flush Press and edited by former "Behind the Black Mask" guest Megan Abbott, it is a killer collection of original noir stories from some of the best contemporary writers.  Included are pieces by former "Behind the Black Mask" guest Allan Guthrie and upcoming guest Ken Bruen, and two short appreciations by Clute and Edwards. Find out more about A Hell of Woman at http://www.ahellofawoman.com/

LISTEN (AND WATCH) NOIRCON PODCASTS

Clute and Edwards are the official podcasters for Noircon 2008. In April 2008, noir writers, filmmakers, scholars and fans gathered in Philadelphia. Clute and Edwards created a series of podcasts around the event. To listen to the Noircon podcasts, please go either of our podcasting portals, Out of the Past or Behind the Black Mask, and have a listen. Also, our Day 3 panel on Cybernoir is available as an enhanced podcast. You can watch Clute, Edwards, and author Seth Harwood as they discuss the future of noir on the web and the new publishing logics of the Internet era. Find out more about NoirCon at www.noircon.com

"OUT OF THE PAST" NOW FEATURED AT APPLE'S iTUNES STORE

The "Out of the Past" Podcast is now featured at the iTunes Music Store. Go to the Podcast section of the store, and under "Topics in Focus," click on "At the Movies."  While there, enjoy this new feature of iTunes that groups podcasts by subject matter. Many thanks to iTunes for featuring the podcast.

READ CLUTE'S ESSAY IN SPINETINGLER MAGAZINE

The latest issue of Spinetingler Magazine features Shannon Clute's article "Crime Fiction Podcasting: A Profile of 'Out of the Past' and 'Behind the Black Mask.'"  It covers the origins and development of the two podcasts Clute and Edwards produce every month. You can read the entire essay online by clicking here, or by visiting the magazine at Spinetinglermag.com

THE PODCASTS AND DISCUSSION FORUM:

NEW!!! The Out of the Past Discussion Board @ Back Alley Noir:
A big thanks to Steve-O at Back Alley Noir. The best place to discuss Out of the Past is at our forum at Back Alley Noir. Go to http://filmnoirtalk.com now and start discussing your favorite noir films and joining in discussions with other members of the Out of the Past community.

"Out of the Past: Investigating Film Noir":
Each film noir weaves its own yarn of longing, corruption, and fateful decisions. On the first of every month, Clute and Edwards investigate one noir or neo-noir in detail. Following various threads of inquiry, they attempt to unravel the vast canvas of noir.  Click on the program title above to view all available episodes.

"Behind the Black Mask: Mystery Writers Revealed":
Writers of hard-boiled, pulp, mystery, and suspense reveal secrets about their fiction, and the writing life. All interviews are conducted by Clute and Edwards, and new episodes post on the fifteenth of each month.  Click on the program title above to view all available interviews.

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NOIRCON DAY 3: CYBERNOIR PANEL


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Shannon Clute, Seth Harwood, and Richard Edwards presented this Cybernoir panel on April 5th, 2008, as part of the Noircon Conference in Philadelphia. Clute and Edwards kick things off with a discussion of how noir style and pulp publishing models seem to provide the fundamental structuring logics of emerging digital media—from blogs to podcasts, mashups to video games. Seth Harwood then relates his own experience of podcasting his first novel, JACK WAKES UP—from producing the initial audio, to embracing various new media in order to cultivate an audience and tap their enthusiasm and skills to promote his work. Finally, all three panelists consider how pulp-logic productions in these various media are likely to change the ways books are published and marketed. This special edition podcast includes all Power Point slides from the panel, synchronized with the audio, for your viewing pleasure. Moreover, there are embedded links at the bottom of the images, which allow you to surf related links while listening. The podcast is optimized for iTunes, and will run on any machine that has iTunes installed.

"Behind the Black Mask" Episode

June 1, 2008

Christa Faust Revealed

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Christa Faust's latest novel, MONEY SHOT, distills all the darkest and most addictive spirits of 1940's film noir and 1950's hard-boiled into a lethal elixir. Such a statement is necessarily contradictory, for Faust's unique blend of a noir atmosphere of inescapable doom with the campy, two-fisted action of Gold Medal-era pulp, gives us characters who die so that they might be reborn, and action that destroys in order to redeem. Protagonist Angel Dare, former porn star and savvy businesswoman, kind-hearted sucker and cold-hearted avenging angel, is the very embodiment of contradictions, yet makes so much sense she'll break your heart. She is the antidote to the uni-dimensionality of today's genre fiction, capable because of her flaws, vulnerable because of her toughness, and of a moral complexity few can touch and none can sully. Far from being anachronistic, MONEY SHOT is a thoroughly modern tale, the work of an author who brilliantly revisits the past in order to reinvigorate a literary tradition and create a new sort of femme fatale who can walk, or work, today's mean streets. No wonder Hard Case Crime chose it as the first title in the line by a female author.