| The Noir Thriller 2009 Edition Contributor(s): Horsley, Lee (Author) |
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ISBN: 0333720458 ISBN-13: 9780333720455 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $104.49 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: January 2001 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Mystery & Detective Fiction - Literary Criticism | Semiotics & Theory - Literary Criticism | Modern - 20th Century |
| Dewey: 823.087 |
| LCCN: 00040453 |
| Series: Crime Files |
| Physical Information: 0.98" H x 5.74" W x 8.6" (1.30 lbs) 329 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: What is literary noir? How do British and American noir thrillers relate to their historical contexts? In considering such questions, this study ranges over hundreds of novels, analysing the politics and poetics of noir from the hard-boiled fiction of Hammett, Chandler and Cain to the exciting diversity of nineties thrillers, with sections on the tough investigators, gangsters and victims of the Depression years: the first-person killers, femmes fatales and black protagonists of mid-century; the game-players, voyeurs and consumers of contemporary thrillers and future noir. |