TY  - BOOK
AU  - Irwin,John T.
ED  - ebrary, Inc.
TI  - Unless the threat of death is behind them: hard-boiled fiction and film noir 
AV  - PS374.D4 I78 2006eb
U1  - 813/.087209 22
PY  - 2006///
CY  - Baltimore
PB  - Johns Hopkins University Press
KW  - Detective and mystery stories, American
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Noir fiction, American
KW  - Detective and mystery films
KW  - United States
KW  - Film noir
KW  - Private investigators in literature
KW  - Detectives in literature
KW  - Masculinity in literature
KW  - Masculinity in motion pictures
KW  - Men in literature
KW  - Men in motion pictures
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - local
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [277]-282) and index; "Where their best interest lies" : Hammett's The Maltese falcon -- Being boss : Chandler's The big sleep -- Beating the boss : Cain's Double indemnity -- Who's the boss? : W.R. Burnett's High sierra -- Deadline at midnight : Cornell Woolrich's Night has a thousand eyes -- A puzzle of character -- Hard-boiled fiction and film noir -- Hard-boiled fiction and film noir continued; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2013; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries
UR  - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/strathmore/Doc?id=10188478
ER  -