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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Dashiell Hammett"”.
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The Mystery of Mystery: The Novels of Dashiell Hammett
Samuel Dashiell Hammett (1894-1961) has long been recognized as America's finest hard-boiled detective writer. Yet Hammett was more than a successful popular writer: he was a creator of a distinct body of fiction that is unique in its vitality, its language, and its vivid and singular vision. …
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From Falling Beams to Fallen Souls : The Ethical Development of the Hard-Boiled Detective Novel
… three best writers of the hard-boiled school, Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, and Ross Macdonald, show an ethical progression, a turning outward, from the personal, inwardly focused ethics of Hammett's characters to the outwardly turned moral understanding of Macdonald's hero.</p> …
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Comfort factors, moral fantasy and social criticism in formulaic fiction : a study of literary formulas with particular reference to the 'hard-boiled' detective story
… Its founding fathers are normally deemed to be Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler and Ross Macdonald. A study of their works should provide a valuable insight into the structure of their patterns and how they are made to work to the public's satisfaction. After all, the one indisputable and …
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Detection and the modern city
… Allan Poe and then moving to Arthur Conan Doyle, Dashiell Hammett and finally a number of later writers in the field, all of whom use the city as setting for the narrative, as well as a problematizing element. The city can be a comfortably known environment wherein the detective operates, but it …
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Sam Spade as the detective next door: industry, culture, and class in post-war radio adaptations of hardboiled detective fiction
… of popular hardboiled detective writers like Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler. This thesis examines The Adventures of Sam Spade (1946-1951) as an adaptation ofHammett's most famous detective. I argue that crime series adapted from popular mystery novels, like Sam Spade, were shaped by a …
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Becoming film noir : film noir adaptions of hard-boiled fiction, 1944-46
… films noirs from 1944—46, and the novels of Dashiell Hammett, James M. Cain, and Raymond Chandler. The thesis argues that the adaptation process is of central significance to the ‘film noir’ debate and to film noir itself. While it argues for a dialogic exchange between ‘noir’ and …
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Motorcars and magic highways: the automobile and communication in twentieth-century American literature and film
… Detective fiction with the hardboiled heroes of Dashiell Hammett and his disciples. I argue that while the former align with a society organized around rail travel and the telegraph, the hardboiled detective novel reflects the public’s shifting relationship with police and state power as a result …
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Silent Cowboys and Verbose Detectives: Masculinity as Rhetoric in Wister, Hammett, and Chandler
… Two illustrates the primarily linguistic work of Dashiell Hammett’s Continental Op in Red Harvest and Raymond Chandler’s Philip Marlowe in Farewell, My Lovely and elucidates that the detective’s status as an urbanite necessitates a different method of performing his work: he negotiates his urban …
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Silent Cowboys and Verbose Detectives: Masculinity as Rhetoric in Wister, Hammett, and Chandler
… Two illustrates the primarily linguistic work of Dashiell Hammett’s Continental Op in Red Harvest and Raymond Chandler’s Philip Marlowe in Farewell, My Lovely and elucidates that the detective’s status as an urbanite necessitates a different method of performing his work: he negotiates his urban …