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Unless the threat of death is behind them : hard-boiled fiction and film noir
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- Creator
- John T. Irwin
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006
- Physical Details
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- xii, 290 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 0801889383, 9780801890802, 0801890802, 9780801884351, 9780801889387, 0801884357
- OCLC
- ocn923192557, ocm64896196, ocn190774834
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [277]-282) and index.
- "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
Subjects
- 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.