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Darkly perfect world : colonial adventure, postmodernism, and American noir
- Title
- Darkly perfect world : colonial adventure, postmodernism, and American noir / Stanley Orr.
- Author
- Orr, Stanley, 1967-
- Publication
- Columbus : Ohio State University Press, c2010.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 10-4440 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- x, 248 p.; 24 cm.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction. Ties are out -- The continental operations of Dashiell Hammett -- Raymond Chandler's semi-tropical romance -- Dark places : Late-Victorian 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.
- Call Number
- JFE 10-4440
- ISBN
- 9780814211250 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0814211259 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780814292235 (cd-rom)
- 0814292232 (cd-rom)
- LCCN
- 2009041921
- OCLC
- YBP 2009041921
- Author
- Orr, Stanley, 1967-
- Title
- Darkly perfect world : colonial adventure, postmodernism, and American noir / Stanley Orr.
- Imprint
- Columbus : Ohio State University Press, c2010.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 10-4440