The mysterious romance of murder crime, detection, and the spirit of noir
"The Mysterious Romance of Murder is about mysteries, murder-mystery movies and books, and about the romance of "noir" as a style, an outlook, a spirit"--
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Ithaca [New York] :
Cornell University Press,
[2022]
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| 100 | 1 | |a Lehman, David, |d 1948- |e author. | |
| 245 | 1 | 4 | |a The mysterious romance of murder : |b crime, detection, and the spirit of noir / |c David Lehman. |
| 264 | 1 | |a Ithaca [New York] : |b Cornell University Press, |c [2022] | |
| 264 | 4 | |c Ã2022 | |
| 300 | |a ix, 281 pages ; |c 23 cm | ||
| 336 | |a text |b txt |2 rdacontent | ||
| 337 | |a unmediated |b n |2 rdamedia | ||
| 338 | |a volume |b nc |2 rdacarrier | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Introduction: the mysterious romance of murder -- Cracking wise -- Paradise of the damned: eighteen notes on noir -- Poetry noir -- Five noir poems -- Heres to crime! -- The last cigarette -- Among my souvenirs -- The great British spymasters -- The limits of logic: Trent's last case (E. C. Bentley) -- Dashiell Hammett's priceless patter -- Paperclip (Raymond Chandler) -- "Grim grin" (Graham Greene) -- Rex Stout: the emperor of Couronne de Canard -- Ida Lupino: the first lady of noir -- Black Friday (David Goodis) -- Orange noir (Charles Willeford) -- Ed McBain: the man from Isola -- Hitchcock's America -- Straight down the line: Billy Wilder's Double indemnity (1944) -- Strangers and mirrors: Orson Welles's The stranger (1946) and The lady from Shanghai (1947) -- An exchange of bullets in Belfast: Carol Reed's Odd man out (1947) -- Blind accidents: John Huston's The asphalt jungle (1950) -- Epitaph for a genre: Stanley Kubrick's The killing (1956) -- Shadow of evil: Robert Mitchum in Cape Fear (1962) -- A reluctant spy's conversion: William Holden in The counterfeit traitor (1962) -- Gangsters in love: Sergio Leone's Once upon a time in America (1984) -- Rogues' gallery -- Why not New York? -- Three astrological profiles. | |
| 520 | |a "The Mysterious Romance of Murder is about mysteries, murder-mystery movies and books, and about the romance of "noir" as a style, an outlook, a spirit"-- |c Provided by publisher. | ||
| 650 | 0 | |a Detective and mystery stories |x History and criticism. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Detective and mystery films |x History and criticism. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Murder in literature. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Murder in motion pictures. | |
| 776 | 0 | 8 | |i Online version: |a Lehman, David, 1948- |t Mysterious romance of murder. |d Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2022 |z 9781501763632 |w (DLC) 2021048704 |
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