“…HARD TIMES, TOUGH TALK, HARD-BOILED SOLUTIONS A BOOK TO INSPIRE AMATEURS & PROS ALIKE. …”

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“…Using examples from a variety of novels, short stories, films and televisions series, John Scaggs:*presents a concise history of crime fiction - from biblical narratives to James Ellroy - broadening the genre to include revenge tragedy and the gothic novel*explores the key sub-genres of crime fiction, such as "Rational Criminal Investigation," "The Hard-Boiled Mode," "The Police Procedural" and "Historical Crime Fiction"*locates texts and their recurring themes and motifs in a wider social and historical context*outlines the various critical concepts that are central to the study of crime fiction, including gender, narrative theory and film theory*considers contemporary television series like "C.S.I.: Crime Scene Investigation" alongside the "classic" whodunnits of Agatha Christie…”
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Tabla de Contenidos: “…The noir in America -- The noir city -- Archetypes- protagonists -- Abraham Polonsky -- Jules Dassin -- Nicholas Ray -- Orson Welles -- 2. The hard-boiled fiction influence -- Cornell Woolrich -- The private detective -- Humphrey Bogart, Spade, Marlowe, and the film noir -- The gangster figure and the noir -- John Huston -- Violence in the noir -- Samuel Fuller -- Robert Aldrich -- Don Siegel -- Sexuality in the noir -- Families in the noir -- Joseph H. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Introduction / Stephen McVeigh and Nicola Cooper -- Continuing to serve: representations of the elderly veteran soldier in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries / Caroline Nielsen -- Veterans, disability, and society in the early United States / Daniel Blackie -- Confederate defeat and the construction of lost cause nostalgia / David Anderson -- Stoics: creating identities at St Dunstan's 1914-20 / Julie Anderson -- Not another hero: the Eastern and Associated Telegraph Companies' creation of the heroic company man / Wendy Gagen -- Italian disabled veterans between experience and representation / Maria Salvante -- The detective as veteran: recasting American hard-boiled writing as a literature of traumatic war experience / Sarah Trott -- "A fabulous potency": masculinity in Icelandic occupation literature / Daisy Neijmann -- Trauma in Bosnia: European film and the peacekeeper's dilemma / Ian Roberts -- Weapons of war: masculinity and sexual violence in Pat Barker's Double vision / Sophie Smith…”
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“…In many ways, the well-constructed weird tale strongly resembles the hard-boiled detective story or the noir thriller in that the resolution of the narrative hinges upon a dramatically shattering confrontation with an unspeakable reality. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Disgraced Ex-Detective. Hard-Boiled Private Eye. Search Expert…”

“…Readers will find in these pages many behind-the-scenes tales of the productions of certain hard-boiled film classics and the prime players involved in their creation, from Darryl Zanuck and Raymond Chandler to John Seitz and Billy Wilder. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Homofobia en la novela negra del hard-boiled. Representación peyorativa de lahomosexualidad en las novelas de BorisVian firmadas Vernon Sullivan; Obras citadas ; 14. …”