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"--
| Main Author: | Lehman, David, 1948- (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Ithaca [New York] :
Cornell University Press,
[2022]
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Table of Contents:
- 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.