From "Hard-Boiled" Detective to "Fallen Man": The Literary Lineage and Postwar Emergence of Film Noir.
| Autor: | Moser, Joseph Paul |
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| Zdroj: | Critical Insights: Crime & Detective Fiction; May2013, p152-175, 24p |
| Abstrakt: | In this article, the author discusses the differences between detective and noir fiction and examines the effect of both genres on the film noir movement in 1940s and 1950s. He focuses on stylistic elements, narrative fixations and character types of the film noir by giving examples of quintessential film noir. He mentions about the crime fictions of several writers including Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler and James M. Cain. |
| Databáze: | Complementary Index |
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