Name: The Noir Thriller
ISBN: 9780230218864

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Reading lane: Fiction and Creative Writing.Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan.

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Authors: Lee Horsley
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: January 19, 2001
Format: Ebook
Theme: Fiction · Creative Writing
Reading lane: Fiction

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Creative Writing
Sociology

About This Book

What is literary noir? How do British and American noir thrillers relate to their historical contexts? In considering such questions, this study ranges over hundreds of novels, analysing the politics and poetics of noir from the hard-boiled fiction of Hammett, Chandler and Cain to the exciting diversity of nineties thrillers, with sections on the tough investigators, gangsters and victims of the Depression years: the first-person killers, femmes fatales and black protagonist...

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What is literary noir? How do British and American noir thrillers relate to their historical contexts? In considering such questions, this study ranges over hundreds of novels, analysing the politics and poetics of noir from the hard-boiled fiction of Hammett, Chandler and Cain to the exciting diversity of nineties thrillers, with sections on the tough investigators, gangsters and victims of the Depression years: the first-person killers, femmes fatales and black protagonists of mid-century; the game-players, voyeurs and consumers of contemporary thrillers and future noir.