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Darkly Perfect World Colonial Adventure, Postmodernism, and American Noir / Stanley Orr.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Orr, Stanley, 1967-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Film noir--United States--History and criticism.
- Film noir.
- American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
- American fiction.
- American fiction--19th century--History and criticism.
- Noir fiction, American--History and criticism.
- Noir fiction, American.
- Detective and mystery stories, American--History and criticism.
- Detective and mystery stories, American.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 248 p. )
- Place of Publication:
- Columbus : Ohio State University Press, 2010.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-234) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-8142-8067-6
- 0-8142-7129-4
- OCLC:
- 899261234
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