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

by Irwin, John T.

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Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006.

Detective and mystery stories, American -- History and criticism.

Noir fiction, American -- History and criticism.

Detective and mystery films -- United States -- History and criticism.

Film noir -- United States -- History and criticism.

Private investigators in literature.

Detectives in literature.

Masculinity in literature.

Masculinity in motion pictures.

Men in literature.

Men in motion pictures.

Electronic Resource

http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0610/2006008094.html

Electronic Resource

http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0668/2006008094-b.html

Electronic Resource

http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0668/2006008094-d.html

0801884357 (acid-free paper)

9780801884351 (acid-free paper)

xii, 290 p. ; 24 cm.

"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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