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Unless the threat of death is behind them : hard-boiled fiction and film noir /

Finally, he discusses how these themes persist in contemporary dramatic series on television, representing the conflicted lives of Americans into the twenty-first century.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Irwin, John T.
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006.
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. Electronic books. e-books. Literary criticism.
Online Access:	Full text (MFA users only)
ISBN:	9780801889387 0801889383
Local Note:	ProQuest Ebook Central

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.