Title Unless the threat of death is behind them : hard-boiled fiction and film noir / John T. Irwin.

Publication Info.	Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2006]
	©2006

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Description	1 online resource (xii, 290 pages)
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-282) and index.
Contents	"Where their best interest lies" : Hammett's The Maltese falcon -- Being boss : Chandler's The big sleep -- Beating the boss : Cain's Double indemnity -- Who's the boss? : W.R. Burnett's High sierra -- Deadline at midnight : Cornell Woolrich's Night has a thousand eyes -- A puzzle of character -- Hard-boiled fiction and film noir -- Hard-boiled fiction and film noir continued.
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Subject	Detective and mystery stories, American -- History and criticism.
	Detective and mystery stories, American.
	Noir fiction, American -- History and criticism.
	Noir fiction, American.
	Detective and mystery films -- United States -- History and criticism.
	Detective and mystery films.
	United States.
	Film noir -- United States -- History and criticism.
	Film noir.
	Private investigators in literature.
	Private investigators in literature.
	Detectives in literature.
	Detectives in literature.
	Masculinity in literature.
	Masculinity in literature.
	Masculinity in motion pictures.
	Masculinity in motion pictures.
	Men in literature.
	Men in literature.
	Men in motion pictures.
	Men in motion pictures.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Other Form:	Print version: Irwin, John T. Unless the threat of death is behind them. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, ©2006 9780801884351 0801884357 (DLC) 2006008094 (OCoLC)64896196
ISBN	9780801889387 (electronic book)
	0801889383 (electronic book)
	9780801884351 (hardback)
	0801884357 (hardback ; acid-free paper)

Title Unless the threat of death is behind them : hard-boiled fiction and film noir / John T. Irwin.

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