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The mysterious romance of murder : crime, detection, and the spirit of noir /
"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"--
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ithaca [New York] :
Cornell University Press,
2022.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: The mysterious romance of murder
- Part I. Killer style. Cracking wise
- Paradise of the damned : eighteen notes on noir
- Poetry noir
- Five noir poems
- Part II. The elements of crime. Heres to crime
- The last cigarette
- Among my souvenirs
- Part III. Auteurs. 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
- Part IV. Dreams that money can buy. 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 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?
- Part III. The imp of the perverse. Three astrological profiles.