Darkly Perfect World : Colonial Adventure, Postmodernism, and American Noir /
"Stanley Orr’s Darkly Perfect World offers a large-scale historical narrative about the way American crime fiction and film have changed throughout the twentieth century. Orr argues that films noirs and noir fictions dramatize Raymond Chandler’s pronouncement that “Even in death, a man has a ri...
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Columbus :
The Ohio State University Press,
[2010]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : ties are out
- The continental operations of Dashiell Hammett
- Raymond Chandler's semi-tropical romance
- Dark places : late-Victorian adventure and film noir
- Veterans of noir : rewriting the good war with Chester Himes, Dorothy B. Hughes, and John Okada
- Noir and the postmodern novel
- To look at him or read him : the confidence man in postmodernist film noir
- Conclusion. Connected guys : the reconstructed subject of 1990s film noir.