Unless the threat of death is behind them [electronic resource] : hard-boiled fiction and film noir / John T. Irwin.
2006
PS374.D4 I78 2006eb
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Unless the threat of death is behind them [electronic resource] : hard-boiled fiction and film noir / John T. Irwin.
Author
Irwin, John T.
ISBN
9780801884351 (hbk.)
0801884357 (hbk. : acid-free paper)
0801884357 (hbk. : acid-free paper)
Publication Details
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2006.
Language
English
Description
xii, 290 p. ; 24 cm.
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PS374.D4 I78 2006eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
813/.087209
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [277]-282) and index.
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Table of Contents
"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.
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.