Darkly perfect world
Subtitle: American noir from colonial adventure to confidence game
By: Stanley Orr.
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Columbus
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780814211250; 9780814292235
Subjects: Detective and mystery stories, American -- History and criticism; Noir fiction, American -- History and criticism; American fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism; American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Film noir -- United States -- History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The continental operations of Dashiell Hammett; title: Raymond Chandler's semi-tropical romance; title: Late romantic adventure and film noir; title: Veterans of noir : rewriting the good war with Chester Himes, Dorothy B. Hughes, and John Okada; title: Noir and the postmodern novel; title: To look at him or read him : the confidence man in postmodernist film noir; title: Conclusion. Connected guys : the reconstructed subject of 1990s film noir.