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Record Nr.

UNINA9910552775203321

Autore

Orr Stanley <1967->

Titolo

Darkly Perfect World : Colonial Adventure, Postmodernism, and American Noir / / Stanley Orr

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Columbus : , : Ohio State University Press, , 2010

©2010

ISBN

0-8142-8067-6

0-8142-7129-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 248 p. )

Disciplina

813/.087209

Soggetti

Film noir - United States - History and criticism

American fiction - 20th century - History and criticism

American fiction - 19th century - History and criticism

Noir fiction, American - History and criticism

Detective and mystery stories, American - History and criticism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-234) and index.

Nota di contenuto

The continental operations of Dashiell Hammett -- Raymond Chandler's semi-tropical romance -- Late romantic adventure and film noir -- Veterans of noir: rewriting the good war with Chester Himes, Dorothy B. Hughes, and John Okada -- Noir and the postmodern novel -- To look at him or read him: the confidence man in postmodernist film noir -- Conclusion. Connected guys: the reconstructed subject of 1990s film noir.