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The american roman noir : Hammett, Cain and Chandler

In this text, William Marling reads classic hard-boiled fiction and film in the contexts of narrative theories and American social and cultural history. His theories for the origins of the dark narratives that emerged during the period leads to a critique of Jazz-Age and Depression-Era culture.
Print Book, English, 1995
University of Georgia Press, Athens, 1995