The mysterious romance of murder : crime, detection, and the spirit of noir / / David Lehman
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| Autore: |
Lehman David <1948->
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| Titolo: |
The mysterious romance of murder : crime, detection, and the spirit of noir / / David Lehman
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| Pubblicazione: | Ithaca : , : Cornell University Press, , 2022 |
| ©2022 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (ix, 281 pages) |
| Disciplina: | 809.3872 |
| Soggetto topico: | Detective and mystery stories - History and criticism |
| Detective and mystery films - History and criticism | |
| Murder in literature | |
| Murder in motion pictures | |
| Soggetto non controllato: | 1940 and 1950 crime movies, style of film noir, essays on crime fiction, crime fiction and film noir, trent’s last case, the burnt orange heresy, double indemnity |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Introduction: the mysterious romance of murder -- Cracking wise -- Paradise of the damned: 17 notes on noir -- Poetry noir -- Five noir poems -- Heres to crime -- The last cigarette -- Among my souvenirs -- The great British spymasters -- The limits of logic: Trents last case (E. C. Bentley) -- Dashiell Hammett's Priceless patter -- Paperclip (Raymond Chandler) -- Grim grin (Graham Greene) -- Rex Stout: the emperor of Couronne de Canard -- Ida Lupino: the First Lady of noir -- Black Friday (David Goodis) -- Orange noir (Charles Willeford) -- Ed McBain: the man from Isola -- Hitchcock's America -- Straight down the line: Billy Wilder's Double indemnity (1944) -- Strangers and mirrors: Orson Welles's The stranger (1946) and The -- lady from Shanghai (1947) -- An exchange of bullets in Belfast: Carol Reed's Odd man out (1947) -- Blind accidents: John Huston's The asphalt jungle (1950) -- Epitaph for a genre: Stanley Kubrick's The killing (1956) -- Shadow of evil: Robert Mitchum in Cape Fear (1962) -- A reluctant spy's conversion: William Holden in The counterfeit traitor (1962) -- Gangsters in love: Sergio Leone's Once upon a time in America (1984) -- Rogue's gallery -- Why not New York? -- Three astrological profiles -- No R. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | "The Mysterious Romance of Murder is about mysteries, murder-mystery movies and books, and about the romance of "noir" as a style, an outlook, a spirit"-- |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The mysterious romance of murder |
| ISBN: | 9781501763649 |
| 9781501763632 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910827652103321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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