Darkly perfect world : colonial adventure, postmodernism, and American noir /
Orr, Stanley,1967-
Columbus : Ohio State University Press,
c2010.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-234) and index.
The continental operations of Dashiell Hammett -- Raymond Chandler's semi-tropical romance -- Late romantic adventure and film noir -- Veterans of noir: rewriting the good war with Chester Himes, Dorothy B. Hughes, and John Okada -- Noir and the postmodern novel -- To look at him or read him: the confidence man in postmodernist film noir -- Conclusion. Connected guys: the reconstructed subject of 1990s film noir.
Detective and mystery stories, American
Noir fiction, American
American fiction
American fiction
Film noir