Noir Thriller, Paperback by Horsley, Lee, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US

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Publication Year: 2001 height: 0.8 in Item Weight: 18.6 Oz Language: English Subject: Crime, General, American / General, Semiotics & Theory, Mystery & Detective / General, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Item Width: 5.6 in Subject Area: Literary Criticism, Fiction, Social Science Publication Name: Noir Thriller Series: Crime Files Ser. Format: Trade Paperback Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan The Limited Book Title: Noir Thriller Item Height: 0.8 in Number of Pages: Xi, 329 Pages ISBN: 9780230218864 Item Length: 8.3 in Type: Textbook Author: Lee Horsley width: 5.6 in

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Noir Thriller, Paperback by Horsley, Lee, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US. Noir Thriller, Paperback by Horsley, Lee, ISBN 0230218865, ISBN-13 9780230218864, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US 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. Noir Thriller, Paperback by Horsley, Lee, ISBN 0230218865, ISBN-13 9780230218864, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US 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.