[Read free] Unless the Threat of Death Is Behind Them: Hard-Boiled Fiction and Film Noir
☆ John T. Irwin ☆
| #2687879 in Books | Johns Hopkins University Press | 2008-09-12 | 2008-09-12 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.00 x.64 x6.00l,.87 | File Name: 0801890802 | 304 pages |
||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Four Stars|By PrintBoy|A great examination of one of my favorite topics!|4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.| The Hard-Boiled library.|By Keith Sadler|This book belongs right alongside J.Naremore's 'More Than Night:Film Noir in Its Contexts'. Noir as a style is far more complex than most ever imagined. This book|||"Irwin succeeds in presenting his topic with the intellectual cachet it deserves." (Choice)
|"Irwin gracefully and successfully accomplishes the critic's most worthy task―to return us happily to the scene of the crime." (Patrick O'Donnell
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 new detectives encountered cases not as intricate logical puzzles but as stark challenges of manhood. In the...
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