The mysterious romance of murder : crime, detection, and the spirit of noir /

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"The Mysterious Romance of Murder is about mysteries, murder-mystery movies and books, and about the romance of "noir" as a style, an outlook, a spirit"--

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lehman, David, 1948- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press, [2022]
Temas:
Detective and mystery stories > History and criticism.
Detective and mystery films > History and criticism.
Murder in literature.
Films de détective > Histoire et critique.
Meurtre dans la littérature.
Detective and mystery films
Detective and mystery stories
Murder in literature
1940 and 1950 crime movies, style of film noir, essays on crime fiction, crime fiction and film noir, trent's last case, the burnt orange heresy, double indemnity.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: the mysterious romance of murder
  • Cracking wise
  • Paradise of the damned: 17 notes on noir
  • Poetry noir
  • Five noir poems
  • Heres to crime
  • The last cigarette
  • Among my souvenirs
  • The great British spymasters
  • The limits of logic: Trents last case (E. C. Bentley)
  • Dashiell Hammett's Priceless patter
  • Paperclip (Raymond Chandler)
  • Grim grin (Graham Greene)
  • Rex Stout: the emperor of Couronne de Canard
  • Ida Lupino: the First Lady of noir
  • Black Friday (David Goodis)
  • Orange noir (Charles Willeford)
  • Ed McBain: the man from Isola
  • Hitchcock's America
  • Straight down the line: Billy Wilder's Double indemnity (1944)
  • Strangers and mirrors: Orson Welles's The stranger (1946) and The
  • lady from Shanghai (1947)
  • An exchange of bullets in Belfast: Carol Reed's Odd man out (1947)
  • Blind accidents: John Huston's The asphalt jungle (1950)
  • Epitaph for a genre: Stanley Kubrick's The killing (1956)
  • Shadow of evil: Robert Mitchum in Cape Fear (1962)
  • A reluctant spy's conversion: William Holden in The counterfeit traitor (1962)
  • Gangsters in love: Sergio Leone's Once upon a time in America (1984)
  • Rogue's gallery
  • Why not New York?
  • Three astrological profiles
  • No R.

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