The Development of the Tech-noir Film: A Theory of the Development of Popular Genres in Fiction and Film (Gothic, Detective, Sci

This study shows the development of tech-noir as a film genre in its relationship to the Promethean myth and to earlier popular genres, such as gothic, detective, and science fiction. It lends particular attention to the importance of Aeschylus's Prometheus trilogy (458-56 BCE) and three literary classic, including Mary Shelley's Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818), Robert Louis Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886) and Herbert George Well's The Island of Dr. Moreau (1896), to tech-noir.