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The Noir Thriller
Lee Horsley
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Description for The Noir Thriller
Paperback. What is literary noir? How do British and American noir thrillers relate to their historical contexts? Lee Horsley's updated study of the genre, now available in paperback, ranges over hundreds of novels from the hard-boiled fiction of Hammett, Chandler and Cain to the game-players, voyeurs and consumers of contemporary thrillers and future noir. Series: Crime Files. Num Pages: 340 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DNF; DSBH; JFCA. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 139 x 21. Weight in Grams: 480.
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.
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.
Product Details
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
344
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Series
Crime Files
Condition
New
Weight
479 g
Number of Pages
329
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780230218864
SKU
V9780230218864
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99-15
About Lee Horsley
LEE HORSLEY is Reader in Literature and Culture at Lancaster University, UK. Her publications include Political Fiction and the Historical Imagination (1990), Fictions of Power in English Literature 1900-1950 (1995) and Twentieth-Century Crime Fiction (2005). She is currently co-editing the Blackwell Companion to Crime Fiction.
Reviews for The Noir Thriller
'A good treatment of the fiction, its cultural relevance, cinematic parallels, and criticism; highly recommended for undergraduate and research collections supporting film and popular culture.' J.R. Christopher, Choice, 2001 'The Noir Thriller marks another title in Palgrave's Crime Files series, whose editorial philosophy is to ... Read more