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Detective and mystery films, PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Mystery & Detective, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, History and criticism, PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism, Film noir, Film criticism, Detective and mystery films -- United States -- History and criticism, Film noir -- United States -- History and criticismPlaces
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Hollywood's detectives: crime series in the 1930s and 1940s from the whodunnit to hard-boiled noir
2012, Palgrave Macmillan
in English
0230578357 9780230578357
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Table of Contents
Preface
Exploring detective films in the 1930s and 1940s: genre, society and Hollywood
"Such lovely friends": class and crime in 'The thin man' series
Between law and crime: the chivalric 'criminal' detective
Englishness and America: Basil Rathbone's Sherlock Holmes
Ordering the world: the uncompromising logic of Charlie Chan and Mr Moto
The rise of the hard-boiled detective
Conclusion: noir detectives, rogue cops, undercover men and police procedurals.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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