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Record Nr.

UNINA9910961922603321

Autore

Mason Fran <1962->

Titolo

Hollywood's Detectives : Crime Series in the 1930s and 1940s from the Whodunnit to Hard-boiled Noir / / by F. Mason

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2012

ISBN

9786613361158

9781283361156

1283361159

9780230358676

0230358675

Edizione

[1st ed. 2012.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (197 p.)

Collana

Crime Files, , 2947-8359

Classificazione

LIT004230PER004030PER004000LIT000000

Disciplina

791.43/6556

Soggetti

Motion pictures - History

Motion pictures, American

Motion pictures

Television broadcasting

Film genres

Literature

Fiction

Film and TV History

American Film and TV

Film and Television Studies

Genre Studies

Fiction Literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preface -- Exploring detective films in the 1930s and 1940s: genre, society and Hollywood --  "Such lovely friends": class and crime in 'The thin man' series --  Between law and crime: the chivalric 'criminal' detective -- Englishness and America: Basil Rathbone's Sherlock Holmes -- Ordering the world: the uncompromising logic of Charlie Chan and Mr Moto --  The rise of the hard-boiled detective --



Conclusion: noir detectives, rogue cops, undercover men and police procedurals.

Sommario/riassunto

The study of Hollywood detectives has often overlooked the B-Movie mystery series in favour of hard-boiled film. Hollywood's Detectives redresses this oversight by examining key detective series of the 1930s and 1940s to explore their contributions to the detective genre.