The Noir Thriller (Crime Files)
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| Rating | : | 4.99 (682 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0230218865 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 329 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-05-25 |
| Language | : | English |
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She is currently co-editing the Blackwell Companion to Crime Fiction.. Her publications include Political Fiction and the Historical Imagination (1990), Fictions of Power in English Literature 1900-1950 (1995) and Twentieth-Century Crime Fiction (2005). LEE HORSLEY is Reader in Literature and Culture at Lancaster Univers
What is literary noir? How do British and American noir thrillers relate to their historical contexts? In considering such questions, this study ranges over hundreds of novels, analysing the politics and poetics of noir from the hard-boiled fiction of Hammett, Chandler and Cain to the exciting diversity of nineties thrillers, with sections on the tough investigators, gangsters and victims of the Depression years: the first-person killers, femmes fatales and black protagonists of mid-century; the game-players, voyeurs and consumers of contemporary thrillers and future noir.
'A good treatment of the fiction, its cultural relevance, cinematic parallels, and criticism; highly recommended for undergraduate and research collections supporting film and popular culture.' J.R. Audiences of noir and neo-noir cinema are sure to find in it their favourite genre's sources of inspiration.'- Marcus Stiglegger, Gutenberg-University, Mainz Germany, Paradoxa'A welcome scholarly projectThe Noir Thriller will stand for the foreseeable future as the one-volume scholarly handbook to the hardboiled/bleak/violent end of crime fictionThe range and depth of her scholarship
David Chute said Why so expensive?. How does a book published only a few years ago, and so widely admired, become scarce enough to have its price jacked up up to the ceiling? And why no paperback?