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 right t...
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[2010]
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