TY  - BOOK
AU  - Irwin,John T.
TI  - Unless the Threat of Death Is Behind Them: Hard-Boiled Fiction and Film Noir
SN  - 9780801889387
AV  - PS374.D4178 
U1  - 813/.087209 
PY  - 2006///
CY  - Baltimore
PB  - Johns Hopkins University Press
KW  - Detective and mystery films -- United States -- History and criticism
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1 "Where Their Best Interest Lies": Hammett's The Maltese Falcon -- 2 Being Boss: Chandler's The Big Sleep -- 3 Beating the Boss: Cain's Double Indemnity -- 4 Who's the Boss?: W. R. Burnett's High Sierra -- 5 Deadline at Midnight: Cornell Woolrich's Night Has a Thousand Eyes -- 6 A Puzzle of Character -- 7 Hard-Boiled Fiction and Film Noir -- 8 Hard-Boiled Fiction and Film Noir, Continued -- Afterword -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z
N2  - Finally, he discusses how these themes persist in contemporary dramatic series on television, representing the conflicted lives of Americans into the twenty-first century
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