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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Hard-boiled"”.
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Becoming film noir : film noir adaptions of hard-boiled fiction, 1944-46
… of modern American literature identified as ‘hard- boiled fiction’. Thus, the main subject matter for the thesis consists of selected 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 …
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Literatura policial: gender, genre, and appropriation in Argentine and Brazilian hard-boiled crime fiction.
This dissertation examines how adaptations of the hard-boiled crime genre have become tools for literary innovation and social criticism in the work of four contemporary authors. Since the 1970s, influential writers such as Rubem Fonseca in Brazil and Ricardo Piglia in Argentina have established …
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From Falling Beams to Fallen Souls : The Ethical Development of the Hard-Boiled Detective Novel
<p>The hard-boiled detective story ushered in a revolution in the mystery story. The older "formal" mystery story saw society as a benevolent, ordering force which the detective restored by catching the murderer, while the hard-boiled mystery portrayed society as corrupt, wild and flawed, and …
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She Had to be Bad: The Femme Fatale in Hard-Boiled Detective Fiction and Film Noir
… become a cultural icon until the publication of Hard-Boiled detective novels in the 1940s. The Hard-Boiled detective novel positions the <em>femme fatale</em> as manipulative seductress who deliberately commits murder and functions as a villain. As the character grew in popularity, the sign of …
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The Alluring and Manipulative "Spider Women" of the Silver Screen: Femmes Fatales of the Hard-Boiled Fiction, Classic Noir and Contemporary Noir Periods
… three categories of femmes fatales: the ones of hard-boiled fiction/classic noir and contemporary noir. Moreover, it generates several comparisons among those aforementioned categories, and extrapolates on them. Third wave feminism and how it draws relevance/is significant to the Bound and The …
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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
The so-called 'hard-boiled' detective story is probably one of the most successful formulaic fictive patterns to be developed this century; and has been translated very effectively into popular film and television drama. Its founding fathers are normally deemed to be Dashiell Hammett, Raymond …
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The Mystery of Mystery: The Novels of Dashiell Hammett
… 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. Hammett's five novels, all produced …
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A Mongrel Tradition: Contemporary Scottish Crime Fiction and its Transatlantic Contexts
… chapter examines Scottish appropriations of the hard-boiled mode in the work of William McIlvanney, Ian Rankin, and Irvine Welsh, using their representation of traditional masculinity as an index for wider concerns about community, class, and violence. The second chapter examines examples of …
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The Case of the Disappearing/Appearing Slow Learner:An Interpretive Mystery
… as “slow learners”. Written as a fictionalized hard-boiled detective story instead of adopting a more traditional thesis format, the thesis drew on the author’s experiential data, primary sources, and interviews with students, teachers, administrators, and curriculum leaders and the interpretive …
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Les influences américaines sur le canular littéraire de Boris Vian
Dans le premier roman de Vernon Sullivan, qui est l’un des plusieurs pseudonyme de Boris Vian, de nombreux influences américaines peuvent être observées. Non seulement l’élite française mais Boris Vian lui-même a adoré la culture américaine en plus, pendant l’occupation allemande cela signifie la …
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To Reach the Unreachable Stars: Reexamining the Shared Arthurian Vision of C. S. Lewis's Science Fiction Trilogy and Raymond Chandler's Marlowe Novels
<p>Although Raymond Chandler and C. S. Lewis seem to be a rather strange pairing, the ways in which they both borrow from Arthurian literature and use the myth to speak to their cultural moment are strikingly similar. Following T. S. Eliot’s use of the Grail quest in <em>The Waste Land</em> (which …