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Dashiell Hammett and the Movies /
As the father of the hardboiled detective genre, Dashiell Hammett had a huge influence on Hollywood. Yet, it is easy to forget how adaptable Hammett's work was, fitting into a variety of genres and inspiring generations of filmmakers. Dashiell Hammett and the Movies offers the first comprehensi...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Brunswick, NJ :
Rutgers University Press,
[2014]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Inferior Hammett or Exemplary Hollywood?
- 1. Three Early Films: Roadhouse Nights (1930), City Streets (1931), and Mister Dynamite (1935)
- 2. Celebrity: The Thin Man (1934)
- 3. After The Thin Man: From Sequel to Series
- 4. Lillian Hellman: Woman in the Dark (1934) and Watch on the Rhine (1943)
- 5. Sexual Politics: The Maltese Falcon (1931), Satan Met a Lady (1936), and The Maltese Falcon (1941)
- 6. Ethnic Politics: The Glass Key (1935 and 1942)
- 7. Hammett in Retrospect: Miller's Crossing (1990)
- Conclusion: Dashiell Hammett and the Movies
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- ABOUT THE AUTHOR