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Criminal Femmes Fatales in American Hardboiled Crime Fiction.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Crime Files SeriesPublisher: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2015Copyright date: ©2016Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (222 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781137356475
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Criminal Femmes Fatales in American Hardboiled Crime FictionDDC classification:
  • 813.087209
LOC classification:
  • PN770-779
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 The " Mad-Bad" Criminal Woman -- Part I: Pre-War Criminal Femmes Fatales -- 2 Narratives of the Underworld: Violence and Dangerous Femininity in Dashiell Hammett's Labyrinthine Criminal World -- 3 Narratives of Detection: Femme Fatality and the Detective "Hero" in Raymond Chandler's Fiction -- 4 Narratives of Seduction: The Criminal Femme Fatale and the "Forbidden Box" in James M. Cain -- Part II: Post-War Criminal Femmes Fatales -- 5 Crime, Sex, and Paranoia in Post-War Hardboiled Paperbacks -- 6 The Duality of David Goodis's Criminal Femmes Fatales -- 7 Mickey Spillane's C riminal Femmes Fatales and the Cold War Vendetta -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 The " Mad-Bad" Criminal Woman -- Part I: Pre-War Criminal Femmes Fatales -- 2 Narratives of the Underworld: Violence and Dangerous Femininity in Dashiell Hammett's Labyrinthine Criminal World -- 3 Narratives of Detection: Femme Fatality and the Detective "Hero" in Raymond Chandler's Fiction -- 4 Narratives of Seduction: The Criminal Femme Fatale and the "Forbidden Box" in James M. Cain -- Part II: Post-War Criminal Femmes Fatales -- 5 Crime, Sex, and Paranoia in Post-War Hardboiled Paperbacks -- 6 The Duality of David Goodis's Criminal Femmes Fatales -- 7 Mickey Spillane's C riminal Femmes Fatales and the Cold War Vendetta -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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