Unless the Threat of Death Is Behind Them Hard-Boiled Fiction and Film Noir |
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Author:
| Irwin, John T. |
ISBN: | 978-0-8018-9080-2 |
Publication Date: | Nov 2008 |
Publisher: | Johns Hopkins University Press
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $30.00 |
Book Description:
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Early in the twentieth century a new character type emerged in the crime novels of American writers such as Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler: the "hard-boiled detective, most famously exemplified by Sam Spade in The Maltese Falcon. Unlike the analytical detectives of nineteenth-century fiction, such as Edgar Allan Poe's Inspector Dupin, the ......
Early in the twentieth century a new character type emerged in the crime novels of American writers such as Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler: the "hard-boiled detective, most famously exemplified by Sam Spade in The Maltese Falcon. Unlike the analytical detectives of nineteenth-century fiction, such as Edgar Allan Poe's Inspector Dupin, the ......