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Unless the threat of death is behind them [electronic resource] : hard-boiled fiction and film noir / John T. Irwin.

By: Irwin, John T.
Contributor(s): ebrary, Inc.
Publisher: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2006Description: xii, 290 p. ; 24 cm.Subject(s): 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 picturesGenre/Form: Electronic books. DDC classification: 813/.087209 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [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.

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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.