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

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Irwin, John T

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006Description: 1 online resource (xii, 290 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

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9780801889387
0801889383

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Unless the threat of death is behind them.DDC classification:

813/.087209 22

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PS374.D4 I78 2006eb

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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 (pages 277-282) and index.

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