Unless the Threat of Death Is Behind Them: Hard-Boiled Fiction and Film Noir by John T. Irwin

Unless the Threat of Death Is Behind Them: Hard-Boiled Fiction and Film Noir

John T. Irwin

290 pages paperback 2006

2 editions

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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 th...

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