02200oam 22005054a 450 991055277520332120210915035033.00-8142-8067-60-8142-7129-4(CKB)3780000000104974(OCoLC)899261234(MdBmJHUP)muse32737(EXLCZ)99378000000010497420091019d2010 uy 0engur|||||||nn|ntxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierDarkly Perfect WorldColonial Adventure, Postmodernism, and American Noir /Stanley OrrColumbus :Ohio State University Press,2010.©2010.1 online resource (x, 248 p. )0-8142-1125-9 Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-234) and index.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.Film noirUnited StatesHistory and criticismAmerican fiction20th centuryHistory and criticismAmerican fiction19th centuryHistory and criticismNoir fiction, AmericanHistory and criticismDetective and mystery stories, AmericanHistory and criticismElectronic books. Film noirHistory and criticism.American fictionHistory and criticism.American fictionHistory and criticism.Noir fiction, AmericanHistory and criticism.Detective and mystery stories, AmericanHistory and criticism.813/.087209Orr Stanley1967-1213982MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK9910552775203321Darkly Perfect World2803720UNINA