紀錄類型: |
書目-電子資源
: Monograph/item
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正題名/作者: |
The noir thriller/ Lee Horsley. |
作者: |
Horsley, Lee, |
出版者: |
New York :Palgrave, : 2001., |
面頁冊數: |
xi, 305 p. :ill. |
內容註: |
Dedication -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- PART I: 1920-45 --Hard-boiled Investigators -- Big-shot Gangsters and Small-time Crooks -- Victims of Circumstance --PART II: 1945-70-- Fatal Men -- Fatal Women -- Strangers and Outcasts -- PART III: 1970-2000 -- Players, Voyeurs and Consumers -- Pasts and Futures -- Bibliography -- Index. |
內容註: |
Part I: 1920-45. Hard-boiled investigators ; From pulp to heroes to poisonville ; Beautiful manners and flawless English ; 'The hardest of the hard-boilers' ; Big-shot gangsters and small-time crooks ; Gutter Macbeths ; Also-rans, has-beens, and other losers ; Britain's armless bandits ; Victims of circumstance ; American dreams ; European nightmares-- Part II: 1945-70. Fatal men ; Revenge-seekers ; Money-grubbers and social climbers ; Psychopaths ; Fatal women ; Tramps and tomboys ; Seeing double ; Seeing through men ; Strangers and outcasts ; Displaced persons ; Civil wrongs ; Rage inHarlem -- Part III: 1970-2000. Players, voyeurs and consumers ; Players and their games ; The eyes of the beholders ; All-consuming quests ; Pasts and futures ; A hell of a city ; Themean streets of the metaverse ; Invitations to the underworld. |
標題: |
American fiction - History and criticism. - 20th century - |
電子資源: |
http://link.springer.com/10.1057/9780230280755access to fulltext (Palgrave) |
ISBN: |
0230280757 |