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Darkly Perfect World : Colonial Adventure, Postmodernism, and American Noir /

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"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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Autore principale: Orr, Stanley, 1967-
Natura: Elettronico eBook
Lingua:inglese
Pubblicazione: Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2010]
Serie:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Soggetti:
Postmodernism (Literature)
Noir fiction, American.
Film noir.
Detective and mystery stories, American.
American fiction.
Alienation (Philosophy) in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM / General
Postmodernisme (Litterature) > États-Unis.
Alienation (Philosophie) dans la litterature.
Roman americain > 19e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Roman americain > 20e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Films noirs > États-Unis > Histoire et critique.
Postmodernism (Literature) > United States.
Detective and mystery stories, American > History and criticism.
Noir fiction, American > History and criticism.
American fiction > 19th century > History and criticism.
American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
Film noir > United States > History and criticism.
United States.
Critiques cinematographiques.
Critiques litteraires.
Film criticism.
Literary criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
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Sommario:
  • 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.

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