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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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Description
x, 248 p.; 24 cm.
Subject
  • Detective and mystery stories, American > History and criticism
  • Noir fiction, American > History and criticism
  • American fiction > 19th century > History and criticism
  • American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism
  • Film noir > United States > History and criticism
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
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