The Noir Thriller (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780333720455)

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.

Author: Lee Horsley
ISBN-10: 0333720458
ISBN-13: 9780333720455
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 01/19/2001
Pages: 329
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.74w x 0.98d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 09/01/2001 pg. 115
Reference and Research Bk News 08/01/2001 pg. 243