Unless the threat of death is behind them : hard-boiled fiction and film noir / / John T. Irwin
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Irwin John T
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| Titolo: |
Unless the threat of death is behind them : hard-boiled fiction and film noir / / John T. Irwin
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| Pubblicazione: | Baltimore, : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2006 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (xii, 290 pages) |
| Disciplina: | 813/.087209 |
| Soggetto topico: | Detective and mystery stories, American - History and criticism |
| Noir fiction, American - History and criticism | |
| Detective and mystery films - United States - History and criticism | |
| Film noir - United States - History and criticism | |
| Private investigators in literature | |
| Detectives in literature | |
| Masculinity in literature | |
| Masculinity in motion pictures | |
| Men in literature | |
| Men in motion pictures | |
| Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [277]-282) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | "Where their best interest lies" : Hammett's The Maltese falcon -- Being boss : Chandler's The big sleep -- Beating the boss : Cain's Double indemnity -- Who's the boss? : W.R. Burnett's High sierra -- Deadline at midnight : Cornell Woolrich's Night has a thousand eyes -- A puzzle of character -- Hard-boiled fiction and film noir -- Hard-boiled fiction and film noir continued. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Finally, he discusses how these themes persist in contemporary dramatic series on television, representing the conflicted lives of Americans into the twenty-first century. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Unless the threat of death is behind them |
| ISBN: | 0-8018-8938-3 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910827213603321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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