Info
- Utilizzare la checkbox di selezione a fianco di ciascun documento per attivare le funzionalità di stampa, invio email, download nei formati disponibili del (i) record.
100 American Crime Writers / / edited by S. Powell
| 100 American Crime Writers / / edited by S. Powell |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2012.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2012 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xii, 373 pages) |
| Disciplina | 813/.087209 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | PowellSteven <1983-> |
| Collana | Crime Files |
| Soggetto topico |
America - Literatures
Literature, Modern - 20th century Ethnology Culture Fiction North American Literature Twentieth-Century Literature Regional Cultural Studies Fiction Literature |
| ISBN |
9781785395499
1785395491 9781283587662 1283587661 9786613900111 6613900117 9781137031662 1137031662 |
| Classificazione | FIC022000FIC030000LIT004020 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Machine generated contents note: -- Acknowledgements "Out of the Venetian Vase": From Golden Age to Hard-boiled"After These Mean Streets": Crime Fiction and the Chandler InheritanceMegan AbbottPaul AusterW.T. BallardAnn BannonRobert BlochLawrence BlockLeigh BrackettGil BrewerFredric BrownHoward BrowneEdward BunkerJames Lee BurkeW.R. BurnettJames M. CainPaul CainTruman CapoteJohn Dickson CarrVera CasparyRaymond ChandlerHarlan CobenMax Allan CollinsRichard CondonMichael ConnellyPatricia CornwellRobert CraisJames CrumleyCarroll John DalyNorbert DavisMignon G. EberhardtJames EllroyJanet EvanovichWilliam FaulknerKenneth FearingRudolph FisherKinky FriedmanJacques FutrelleErle Stanley GardnerWilliam Campbell GaultDavid GoodisSue GraftonDavis GrubbFrank GruberDashiell HammettThomas HarrisCarl HiaasonPatricia HighsmithGeorge V. HigginsTony HillermanChester HimesDorothy B. HughesRoy HugginsDay KeaneJonathan KellermanC Daly KingJonathon LatimerDennis LehaneElmore LeonardIra LevinElizabeth LinningtonEleazar LipskyJohn LutzEd McBainHorace McCoyWilliam P. McGivernJohn D. MacDonaldRoss MacdonaldDan J. MarloweMargaret MillarWalter MoselyMarcia MullerFrederick NebelBarbara NeelyWilliam F. NolanSara ParetskyRobert B. ParkerGeorge PelecanosEdgar Allan PoeMelville Davisson PostRichard S PratherBill PronziniEllery Queen (aka Dannay and Lee)Arthur B. ReeveMary Roberts RinehartJames SallisGeorge S SchuylerViola Brothers ShoreIceberg SlimMickey SpillaneRex StoutJim ThompsonErnest TidymanLawrence TreatS.S. Van Dine (Willard Huntington Wright)Joseph WambaughCarolyn WellsDonald E WestlakeRaoul WhitfieldCharles WillefordCharles WilliamsCornell Woolrich Bibliography Index. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910971010603321 |
| London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2012 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
| ||
America is elsewhere : the noir tradition in the age of consumer culture / / Erik Dussere
| America is elsewhere : the noir tradition in the age of consumer culture / / Erik Dussere |
| Autore | Dussere Erik <1968-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Oxford University Press, , [2014] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (320 pages ) : illustrations |
| Disciplina | 813/.087209 |
| Soggetto topico |
Detective and mystery stories, American - History and criticism
Noir fiction, American - History and criticism Film noir - United States - History and criticism National characteristics, American, in literature Masculinity in literature |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 0-19-997073-4 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910452512903321 |
Dussere Erik <1968->
|
||
| New York : , : Oxford University Press, , [2014] | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
| ||
America is elsewhere : the noir tradition in the age of consumer culture / / Erik Dussere
| America is elsewhere : the noir tradition in the age of consumer culture / / Erik Dussere |
| Autore | Dussere Erik <1968-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Oxford University Press, , [2014] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (320 pages ) : illustrations |
| Disciplina | 813/.087209 |
| Soggetto topico |
Detective and mystery stories, American - History and criticism
Noir fiction, American - History and criticism Film noir - United States - History and criticism National characteristics, American, in literature Masculinity in literature |
| ISBN | 0-19-997073-4 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910790532203321 |
|
Dussere Erik <1968->
|
||
| New York : , : Oxford University Press, , [2014] | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
| ||
America is elsewhere : the noir tradition in the age of consumer culture / / Erik Dussere
| America is elsewhere : the noir tradition in the age of consumer culture / / Erik Dussere |
| Autore | Dussere Erik <1968-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Oxford University Press, , [2014] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (320 pages ) : illustrations |
| Disciplina | 813/.087209 |
| Soggetto topico |
Detective and mystery stories, American - History and criticism
Noir fiction, American - History and criticism Film noir - United States - History and criticism National characteristics, American, in literature Masculinity in literature |
| ISBN | 0-19-997073-4 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910809249803321 |
|
Dussere Erik <1968->
|
||
| New York : , : Oxford University Press, , [2014] | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
| ||
The Cambridge companion to American crime fiction / / edited by Catherine Ross Nickerson [[electronic resource]]
| The Cambridge companion to American crime fiction / / edited by Catherine Ross Nickerson [[electronic resource]] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2010 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xii, 190 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
| Disciplina | 813/.087209 |
| Collana | Cambridge companions to literature |
| Soggetto topico | Detective and mystery stories, American - History and criticism |
| ISBN |
1-139-80097-3
0-511-76284-4 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Introduction : the satisfactions of murder / Catherine Ross Nickerson -- Early American crime writing / Sara Crosby -- Poe and the origins of detective fiction / Stephen Rachman -- Women writers before 1960 / Catherine Ross Nickerson -- The hard-boiled novel / Sean McCann -- The American roman noir / Andrew Pepper -- Teenage detectives and teenage delinquents / Ilana Nash -- American spy fiction / David Seed -- The police procedural in literature and on television / Eddy von Mueller -- Mafia stories and the American gangster / Fred L. Gardaphe -- True crime / Laura Browder -- Race and American crime fiction / Maureen T. Reddy -- Feminist crime fiction / Margaret Kinsman -- Crime in postmodernist fiction / Susan Elizabeth Sweeney. |
| Record Nr. | UNISA-996202481803316 |
| Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2010 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno | ||
| ||
The covert sphere [[electronic resource] ] : secrecy, fiction, and the national security state / / Timothy Melley
| The covert sphere [[electronic resource] ] : secrecy, fiction, and the national security state / / Timothy Melley |
| Autore | Melley Timothy <1963-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Ithaca, : Cornell University Press, 2012 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (302 p.) |
| Disciplina | 813/.087209 |
| Soggetto topico |
American fiction - 20th century - History and criticism
Espionage in literature Literature and history - United States National security - Social aspects - United States Popular culture - Political aspects - United States - History - 20th century Popular culture - Political aspects - United States - History - 21st century Secrecy in literature Spy stories, American - History and criticism Terrorism in literature World politics in literature |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
0-8014-6547-8
1-322-50414-8 0-8014-6591-5 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: The Postmodern Public Sphere -- 1. Brainwashed! -- 2. Spectacles of Secrecy -- 3. False Documents -- 4. The Work of Art in the Age of Plausible Deniability -- 5. Postmodern Amnesia -- 6. The Geopolitical Melodrama -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910462186703321 |
|
Melley Timothy <1963->
|
||
| Ithaca, : Cornell University Press, 2012 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
| ||
The covert sphere [[electronic resource] ] : secrecy, fiction, and the national security state / / Timothy Melley
| The covert sphere [[electronic resource] ] : secrecy, fiction, and the national security state / / Timothy Melley |
| Autore | Melley Timothy <1963-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Ithaca, : Cornell University Press, 2012 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (302 p.) |
| Disciplina | 813/.087209 |
| Soggetto topico |
American fiction - 20th century - History and criticism
Espionage in literature Literature and history - United States National security - Social aspects - United States Popular culture - Political aspects - United States - History - 20th century Popular culture - Political aspects - United States - History - 21st century Secrecy in literature Spy stories, American - History and criticism Terrorism in literature World politics in literature |
| ISBN |
0-8014-6547-8
1-322-50414-8 0-8014-6591-5 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: The Postmodern Public Sphere -- 1. Brainwashed! -- 2. Spectacles of Secrecy -- 3. False Documents -- 4. The Work of Art in the Age of Plausible Deniability -- 5. Postmodern Amnesia -- 6. The Geopolitical Melodrama -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910786363903321 |
|
Melley Timothy <1963->
|
||
| Ithaca, : Cornell University Press, 2012 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
| ||
Darkly Perfect World : Colonial Adventure, Postmodernism, and American Noir / / Stanley Orr
| Darkly Perfect World : Colonial Adventure, Postmodernism, and American Noir / / Stanley Orr |
| Autore | Orr Stanley <1967-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Columbus : , : Ohio State University Press, , 2010 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (x, 248 p. ) |
| Disciplina | 813/.087209 |
| Soggetto topico |
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 |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
0-8142-8067-6
0-8142-7129-4 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| 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. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910552775203321 |
|
Orr Stanley <1967->
|
||
| Columbus : , : Ohio State University Press, , 2010 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
| ||
Dime Novels and the Roots of American Detective Fiction [[electronic resource] /] / by P. Bedore
| Dime Novels and the Roots of American Detective Fiction [[electronic resource] /] / by P. Bedore |
| Autore | Bedore P |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2013.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2013 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (221 p.) |
| Disciplina | 813/.087209 |
| Collana | Crime Files |
| Soggetto topico |
Sociology
America—Literatures Literature Crime—Sociological aspects Literature—Philosophy Culture—Study and teaching Gender Studies North American Literature Literature, general Crime and Society Literary Theory Cultural Theory |
| ISBN |
1-349-44993-8
1-137-28865-5 |
| Classificazione | HIS038000LIT004020LIT004230 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Appendix Tables; Acknowledgments; 1 The Case of the Missing Detectives; or, Reassessing the American Contribution to Detective Fiction; Introduction; Construing the absence of the dime novel detective; Who is the American dime novel detective?; Disrupting existing narratives about detective fiction; Some organizing principles; 2 The Happy-Ending Deception; or, Uncovering the Subversive Potential of Detective Dime Novels; Introduction; The primacy of endings: a theoretical excursion
Methods and trends: (de)coding the dime novel detectiveA shadowy detective and a police captain: gender bending and genre blending; Forced marriages, faked weddings, and gendered problems of closure; The detectives that don't work out: death and corruption in the detective position; A Terrible Ending: an unambiguous antidote to happy endings; In conclusion ...; 3 The Case of the Contaminated Icon; or, Allan Pinkerton's Dangerous Detective Doubles; Introduction; Allan Pinkerton's iconography: all-seeing eyes, Civil War spies, and the Underground Railroad Pinkerton's generic breadth: classical, hardboiled, police, and diverse detectivesContamination and the problems of deep cover; Outlaw doubling lite: the humorous logic of bodily substitution; Outlaw doubling darkened through the prism of graphic torture; Conclusion; 4 Playing with the Ace of Hearts; or, Mentorship, Sportsmanship, and Nick Carter's Epistemological Dilemmas; Introduction; Nick Carter's school for detectives: mentorship and fair play; The mediating power of games; The ethical and erotic mediations of the femme fatale; Proto-postmodern epistemological investigations; Conclusion 5 Faulkner, Twain, and the Legacy of Dime Novel DetectivesIntroduction; White elephants, doubled barrels, and Mark Twain's detective obsessions; Chasing the unknown gambit; or, mentorship and games in Nick Carter and Gavin Stevens; Conclusion; 6 Conclusions and Directions for Future Research; Appendix Tables; Notes; References; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910790750503321 |
|
Bedore P
|
||
| London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2013 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
| ||
Dime Novels and the Roots of American Detective Fiction / / by P. Bedore
| Dime Novels and the Roots of American Detective Fiction / / by P. Bedore |
| Autore | Bedore P |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2013.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2013 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (221 p.) |
| Disciplina | 813/.087209 |
| Collana | Crime Files |
| Soggetto topico |
Sex
America - Literatures Literature Crime - Sociological aspects Literature - Philosophy Culture - Study and teaching Gender Studies North American Literature Crime and Society Literary Theory Cultural Theory |
| ISBN |
9781349449934
1349449938 9781137288653 1137288655 |
| Classificazione | HIS038000LIT004020LIT004230 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Appendix Tables; Acknowledgments; 1 The Case of the Missing Detectives; or, Reassessing the American Contribution to Detective Fiction; Introduction; Construing the absence of the dime novel detective; Who is the American dime novel detective?; Disrupting existing narratives about detective fiction; Some organizing principles; 2 The Happy-Ending Deception; or, Uncovering the Subversive Potential of Detective Dime Novels; Introduction; The primacy of endings: a theoretical excursion
Methods and trends: (de)coding the dime novel detectiveA shadowy detective and a police captain: gender bending and genre blending; Forced marriages, faked weddings, and gendered problems of closure; The detectives that don't work out: death and corruption in the detective position; A Terrible Ending: an unambiguous antidote to happy endings; In conclusion ...; 3 The Case of the Contaminated Icon; or, Allan Pinkerton's Dangerous Detective Doubles; Introduction; Allan Pinkerton's iconography: all-seeing eyes, Civil War spies, and the Underground Railroad Pinkerton's generic breadth: classical, hardboiled, police, and diverse detectivesContamination and the problems of deep cover; Outlaw doubling lite: the humorous logic of bodily substitution; Outlaw doubling darkened through the prism of graphic torture; Conclusion; 4 Playing with the Ace of Hearts; or, Mentorship, Sportsmanship, and Nick Carter's Epistemological Dilemmas; Introduction; Nick Carter's school for detectives: mentorship and fair play; The mediating power of games; The ethical and erotic mediations of the femme fatale; Proto-postmodern epistemological investigations; Conclusion 5 Faulkner, Twain, and the Legacy of Dime Novel DetectivesIntroduction; White elephants, doubled barrels, and Mark Twain's detective obsessions; Chasing the unknown gambit; or, mentorship and games in Nick Carter and Gavin Stevens; Conclusion; 6 Conclusions and Directions for Future Research; Appendix Tables; Notes; References; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910955218003321 |
|
Bedore P
|
||
| London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2013 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
| ||
