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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"--

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Lehman, David, 1948- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2022.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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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.