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Unless the Threat of Death Is Behind Them: Hard-Boiled Fiction and Film Noir
John T. Irwin
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Description for Unless the Threat of Death Is Behind Them: Hard-Boiled Fiction and Film Noir
Paperback. Finally, he discusses how these themes persist in contemporary dramatic series on television, representing the conflicted lives of Americans into the twenty-first century. Num Pages: 306 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 221 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 434.
Early in the twentieth century a new character type emerged in the crime novels of American writers such as Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler: the "hard-boiled" detective, most famously exemplified by Sam Spade in The Maltese Falcon. Unlike the analytical detectives of nineteenth-century fiction, such as Edgar Allan Poe's Inspector Dupin, the new detectives encountered cases not as intricate logical puzzles but as stark challenges of manhood. In the stories of these characters and their criminal opposites, John T. Irwin explores the tension within ideas of American masculinity between subordination and independence and, for the man who becomes "his own ... Read more
Early in the twentieth century a new character type emerged in the crime novels of American writers such as Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler: the "hard-boiled" detective, most famously exemplified by Sam Spade in The Maltese Falcon. Unlike the analytical detectives of nineteenth-century fiction, such as Edgar Allan Poe's Inspector Dupin, the new detectives encountered cases not as intricate logical puzzles but as stark challenges of manhood. In the stories of these characters and their criminal opposites, John T. Irwin explores the tension within ideas of American masculinity between subordination and independence and, for the man who becomes "his own ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9780801890802
SKU
V9780801890802
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About John T. Irwin
John T. Irwin is the Decker Professor in the Humanities at the Johns Hopkins University, where he formerly served as chair of the Writing Seminars. His previous books include The Mystery to a Solution: Poe, Borges, and the Analytic Detective Story, recipient of the Modern Language Association's Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies and Phi Beta Kappa's Christian Gauss ... Read more
Reviews for Unless the Threat of Death Is Behind Them: Hard-Boiled Fiction and Film Noir
Irwin succeeds in presenting his topic with the intellectual cachet it deserves. Choice 2007 Irwin gracefully and successfully accomplishes the critic's most worthy task-to return us happily to the scene of the crime.
Patrick O'Donnell Modernism/Modernity 2007 Stimulating... Irwin's psychoanalytic criticism offers subtle readings of the novels, their adaptations, and of the relations between these texts and their authors' ... Read more
Patrick O'Donnell Modernism/Modernity 2007 Stimulating... Irwin's psychoanalytic criticism offers subtle readings of the novels, their adaptations, and of the relations between these texts and their authors' ... Read more