Criminal Femmes Fatales in American Hardboiled Crime Fiction.
Material type:
- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781137356475
- 813.087209
- PN770-779
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.
Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
There are no comments on this title.