Hollywood's Detectives: Crime Series in the 1930s and 1940s from the Whodunnit to Hard-Boiled Noir by Mason, F.

Hollywood's Detectives: Crime Series in the 1930s and 1940s from the Whodunnit to Hard-Boiled Noir (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780230578357)

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Format: Hardcover
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Hollywood's Detectives: Crime Series in the 1930s and 1940s from the Whodunnit to Hard-Boiled Noir by Mason, F.

Hollywood's Detectives: Crime Series in the 1930s and 1940s from the Whodunnit to Hard-Boiled Noir

$54.99
Hollywood's Detectives: Crime Series in the 1930s and 1940s from the Whodunnit to Hard-Boiled Noir by Mason, F.

Hollywood's Detectives: Crime Series in the 1930s and 1940s from the Whodunnit to Hard-Boiled Noir

$54.99
Format: Hardcover
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The study of Hollywood detectives has often overlooked the B-Movie mystery series in favour of hard-boiled film. Hollywood's Detectives redresses this oversight by examining key detective series of the 1930s and 1940s to explore their contributions to the detective genre.

Author: F. Mason
ISBN-10: 0230578357
ISBN-13: 9780230578357
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 12/15/2011
Pages: 187
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.70w x 0.70d

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Choice 08/01/2012
By F. Mason
By F. Mason
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FRAN MASON Lecturer in Film and American Studies at the University of Winchester, UK, where he teaches in Film Studies and American Studies. He teaches and researches in film and culture with particular interests in Classical Hollywood Cinema, Crime Films and Postmodernism, and is currently researching Assassin Films and representations of the city on film.

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