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Vintage Hammett

Dashiell Hammett
Vintage Hammett Book PDF

Author : Dashiell Hammett
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307429995

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Vintage Hammett by Dashiell Hammett Pdf

Sam Spade, Nick and Nora Charles, The Continental Op. In his novels and stories, Dashiell Hammett created some of the most memorable characters--detectives, dames, and assorted miscreants--in twentieth-century fiction. It is nearly impossible to imagine modern American literature without Hammett. Vintage Hammett features episodes from Red Harvest, The Maltese Falcon, The Dain Curse, and The Thin Man; and stories featuring the Continental Op, including “The House in Turk Street,” “The Girl with the Silver Eyes," and "Flypaper.” It also includes the story "Nightshade" which has not been available in over fifty years. Vintage Readers are a perfect introduction to some of the great modern writers, presented in attractive, affordable paperback editions.

Perplexing Plots

David Bordwell
Perplexing Plots Book PDF

Author : David Bordwell
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 558 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2023-01-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780231556552

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Perplexing Plots by David Bordwell Pdf

Narrative innovation is typically seen as the domain of the avant-garde. However, techniques such as nonlinear timelines, multiple points of view, and unreliable narration have long been part of American popular culture. How did forms and styles once regarded as “difficult” become familiar to audiences? In Perplexing Plots, David Bordwell reveals how crime fiction, plays, and films made unconventional narrative mainstream. He shows that since the nineteenth century, detective stories and suspense thrillers have allowed ambitious storytellers to experiment with narrative. Tales of crime and mystery became a training ground where audiences learned to appreciate artifice. These genres demand a sophisticated awareness of storytelling conventions: they play games with narrative form and toy with audience expectations. Bordwell examines how writers and directors have pushed, pulled, and collaborated with their audiences to change popular storytelling. He explores the plot engineering of figures such as Raymond Chandler, Agatha Christie, Dashiell Hammett, Patricia Highsmith, Alfred Hitchcock, Dorothy Sayers, and Quentin Tarantino, and traces how mainstream storytellers and modernist experimenters influenced one another’s work. A sweeping, kaleidoscopic account written in a lively, conversational style, Perplexing Plots offers an ambitious new understanding of how movies, literature, theater, and popular culture have evolved over the past century.

The Novel Art

Mark McGurl
The Novel Art Book PDF

Author : Mark McGurl
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2020-06-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780691214832

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The Novel Art by Mark McGurl Pdf

Once upon a time there were good American novels and bad ones, but none was thought of as a work of art. The Novel Art tells the story of how, beginning with Henry James, this began to change. Examining the late-nineteenth century movement to elevate the status of the novel, its sources, paradoxes, and reverberations into the twentieth century, Mark McGurl presents a more coherent and wide-ranging account of the development of American modernist fiction than ever before. Moving deftly from James to Stephen Crane, Edith Wharton, Gertrude Stein, William Faulkner, Dashiell Hammett, and Djuna Barnes among others, McGurl argues that what unifies this diverse group of ambitious writers is their agonized relation to a middling genre rarely included in discussions of the fine arts. He concludes that the new product, despite its authors' desire to distinguish it from popular forms, never quite forsook the intimacy the genre had long cultivated with the common reader. Indeed, the ''art novel'' sought status within the mass market, and among its prime strategies was a promotion of the mind as a source of value in an economy increasingly dependent on mental labor. McGurl also shows how modernism's obsessive interest in simple-mindedness revealed a continued concern with the masses even as it attempted to use this simplicity to produce a heightened sophistication of form. Masterfully argued and set in elegant prose, The Novel Art provides a rich new understanding of the fascinating road the American novel has taken from being an artless enterprise to an aesthetic one.

Economic Investigations in Twentieth-Century Detective Fiction

Yan Zi-Ling
Economic Investigations in Twentieth Century Detective Fiction Book PDF

Author : Yan Zi-Ling
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317146162

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Economic Investigations in Twentieth-Century Detective Fiction by Yan Zi-Ling Pdf

In his study of Golden Age and hard-boiled detective fiction from 1890 to 1950, Yan Zi-Ling argues that these two subgenres can be distinguished not only by theme and style, but by the way they structure knowledge, value, and productive labour. Using the detective as a reference point and enactor of socially based interests, Yan shows that Golden Age texts are distinguished by their conservationism (and not only by their conservatism), with the detectives’ actions serving to stabilize institutions with specific ideological aims. In contrast, the criminal investigations of the hard-boiled detective, who is poorly aligned with institutions and strong interest groups, reveal the fragility of the status quo in the face of escalating cycles of violence. Key to Yan’s discussion are theories of exchange, value, and the gift, the latter of which he suggests is more akin to detective work than is wage labour. Analyzing texts by a wide range of authors that includes Arthur Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie, Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, Dorothy Sayers, Raoul Whitfield, George Harmon Coxe, and Mickey Spillane, Yan demonstrates that the detective’s truth-generating function, most often characterized as a process of discovery rather than creation, is in fact crucial to the institutional and class-based interests that he or she serves.

A Companion to Crime Fiction

Charles J. Rzepka,Lee Horsley
A Companion to Crime Fiction Book PDF

Author : Charles J. Rzepka,Lee Horsley
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781119675778

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A Companion to Crime Fiction by Charles J. Rzepka,Lee Horsley Pdf

A Companion to Crime Fiction presents the definitive guide to this popular genre from its origins in the eighteenth century to the present day A collection of forty-seven newly commissioned essays from a team of leading scholars across the globe make this Companion the definitive guide to crime fiction Follows the development of the genre from its origins in the eighteenth century through to its phenomenal present day popularity Features full-length critical essays on the most significant authors and film-makers, from Arthur Conan Doyle and Dashiell Hammett to Alfred Hitchcock and Martin Scorsese exploring the ways in which they have shaped and influenced the field Includes extensive references to the most up-to-date scholarship, and a comprehensive bibliography

The Cambridge Companion to American Crime Fiction

Catherine Ross Nickerson
The Cambridge Companion to American Crime Fiction Book PDF

Author : Catherine Ross Nickerson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2010-07-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521136068

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The Cambridge Companion to American Crime Fiction by Catherine Ross Nickerson Pdf

This Companion examines the range of American crime fiction from execution sermons of the Colonial era to television programmes like The Sopranos.

In Search of The Thin Man

Philip Zwerling
In Search of The Thin Man Book PDF

Author : Philip Zwerling
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2024-02-29
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476686578

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In Search of The Thin Man by Philip Zwerling Pdf

The man who created the boldest hard boiled fiction, Dashiell Hammett, wrote The Thin Man in 1933 and launched the fun-loving, booze-swilling, mystery-solving couple Nick and Nora Charles into American culture. MGM sold millions of movie tickets by casting William Powell and Myrna Loy as this classiest of romantic couples. Over 14 years and six films, these stars navigated grave periods of history: the Great Depression, World War II, and the Cold War. The novel and films live on as gems of a unique gritty sophistication. This complete history of The Thin Man series covers the brightest stars, tastiest scandals, headlines and conflicts behind these classic films. With a cast of hundreds, we see Hammett, his lover Lillian Hellman, and their friend Dorothy Parker fight alcoholism, sexual convention and Senator Joe McCarthy in culture wars of eerie contemporaneity.

Detective Fiction

Charles J. Rzepka
Detective Fiction Book PDF

Author : Charles J. Rzepka
Publisher : Polity
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2005-09-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0745629423

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Detective Fiction by Charles J. Rzepka Pdf

'Detective Fiction' is a clear and compelling look at some of the best known, yet least-understood characters and texts of the modern day. Undergraduate students of Detective and Crime Fiction and of genre fiction in general, will find this book essential reading.

The Continental Op

Dashiell Hammett
The Continental Op Book PDF

Author : Dashiell Hammett
Publisher : Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1989-07-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780679722588

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The Continental Op by Dashiell Hammett Pdf

Short, thick-bodied, mulishly stubborn, and indifferent to pain, Dashiell Hammett's Continetal Op was the prototype for generations of tough-guy detectives. In these stories the Op unravels a murder with too many clues, looks for a girl with eyes the color of shadows on polished silver, and tangles with a crooked-eared gunman called the Whosis Kid.

Encyclopedia of the American Novel

Abby H. P. Werlock
Encyclopedia of the American Novel Book PDF

Author : Abby H. P. Werlock
Publisher : Infobase Learning
Page : 4202 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2015-04-22
Category : American fiction
ISBN : 9781438140698

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Encyclopedia of the American Novel by Abby H. P. Werlock Pdf

Praise for the print edition:" ... no other reference work on American fiction brings together such an array of authors and texts as this.

The Dain Curse

Dashiell Hammett
The Dain Curse Book PDF

Author : Dashiell Hammett
Publisher : Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2011-02-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307767479

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The Dain Curse by Dashiell Hammett Pdf

When eight diamonds are stolen from a prominent San Francisco family, the Continental Op is called in to investigate. But the missing jewels aren’t the only thing out of the ordinary. The man who reported the burglary ends up dead, ostensibly a suicide. His daughter, one of the suspects, Miss Gabrielle Dain Leggett, has a penchant for morphine and religious cults. She also has an unfortunate effect on the people around her: they have a habit of dying. Might Gabrielle be the victim of an arcane family curse? Or is the truth about her stranger and even more dangerous? The Dain Curse is one of the Continental Op’s most bizarre cases and a tautly crafted masterpiece of suspense.

Unless the Threat of Death is Behind Them

John T. Irwin
Unless the Threat of Death is Behind Them Book PDF

Author : John T. Irwin
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2006-10-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780801889387

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Unless the Threat of Death is Behind Them by John T. Irwin Pdf

The noted literary critic delves into the psychology and significance of American hardboiled crime fiction and film noir of the 1930s and ’40s. Early in the twentieth century, American crime novelists like Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler put forward a new kind of character: the “hard-boiled” detective, as exemplified by Sam Spade in The Maltese Falcon. Unlike the analytical detectives of nineteenth-century fiction, these new detectives encountered cases not as intricate logical puzzles but as stark challenges of manhood. John T. Irwin explores how the stories of these characters grapple with ideas of American masculinity. Professional codes are pitted against personal desires, resulting in either ruinous relationships or solitary integrity. In thematic conflicts between independence and subordination, all notions of manly independence prove subordinate to the hand of fate. Tracing the stylistic development of the genre, Irwin demonstrates the particular influence of the novel of manners, especially the writing of F. Scott Fitzgerald. He also shows that as hard-boiled fiction began to appear on the screen in film noir, it took on themes of female empowerment—just as women entered the workforce in large numbers. Finally, he discusses how these themes persist in contemporary dramatic series on television, representing the conflicted lives of Americans into the twenty-first century.

Red Harvest

Dashiell Hammett
Red Harvest Book PDF

Author : Dashiell Hammett
Publisher : Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2010-12-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307767486

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Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett Pdf

The steadfast and sturdy Continental Op has been summoned to the town of Personville—known as Poisonville—a dusty mining community splintered by competing factions of gangsters and petty criminals. The Op has been hired by Donald Willsson, publisher of the local newspaper, who gave little indication about the reason for the visit. No sooner does the Op arrive, than the body count begins to climb . . . starting with his client. With this last honest citizen of Poisonville murdered, the Op decides to stay on and force a reckoning—even if that means taking on an entire town. Red Harvest is more than a superb crime novel: it is a classic exploration of corruption and violence in the American grain.

Dashiell Hammett and the Movies

William H. Mooney
Dashiell Hammett and the Movies Book PDF

Author : William H. Mooney
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2014-11-03
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780813573045

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Dashiell Hammett and the Movies by William H. Mooney Pdf

As the father of the hardboiled detective genre, Dashiell Hammett had a huge influence on Hollywood. Yet, it is easy to forget how adaptable Hammett’s work was, fitting into a variety of genres and inspiring generations of filmmakers. Dashiell Hammett and the Movies offers the first comprehensive look at Hammett’s broad oeuvre and how it was adapted into films from the 1930s all the way into the 1990s. Film scholar William H. Mooney reveals the wide range of films crafted from the same Hammett novels, as when The Maltese Falcon was filmed first as a pre-Code sexploitation movie, then as a Bette Davis screwball comedy, and finally as the Humphrey Bogart classic. He also considers how Hammett rose to Hollywood fame not through the genre most associated with him, but through a much fizzier concoction, the witty murder mystery The Thin Man. To demonstrate the hold Hammett still has over contemporary filmmakers, the book culminates in an examination of the Coen brothers’ pastiche Miller’s Crossing. Mooney not only provides us with an in-depth analysis of Hammett adaptations, he also chronicles how Hollywood enabled the author’s own rise to stardom, complete with a celebrity romance and a carefully crafted public persona. Giving us a behind-the-scenes look at the complex power relationships, cultural contexts, and production concerns involved in bringing Hammett’s work from the page to the screen, Dashiell Hammett and the Movies offers a fresh take on a literary titan.

The Black Lizard Big Book of Pulps

Otto Penzler
The Black Lizard Big Book of Pulps Book PDF

Author : Otto Penzler
Publisher : Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Page : 1170 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2008-12-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307494160

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The Black Lizard Big Book of Pulps by Otto Penzler Pdf

The biggest, the boldest, the most comprehensive collection of Pulp writing ever assembled. Weighing in at over a thousand pages, containing over forty-seven stories and two novels, this book is big baby, bigger and more powerful than a freight train—a bullet couldn’t pass through it. Here are the best stories and every major writer who ever appeared in celebrated Pulps like Black Mask, Dime Detective, Detective Fiction Weekly, and more. These are the classic tales that created the genre and gave birth to hard-hitting detectives who smoke criminals like packs of cigarettes; sultry dames whose looks are as lethal as a dagger to the chest; and gin-soaked hideouts where conversations are just preludes to murder. This is crime fiction at its gritty best. Including: • Three stories by Raymond Chandler, Cornell Woolrich, Erle Stanley Gardner, and Dashiell Hammett. • Complete novels from Carroll John Daly, the man who invented the hard-boiled detective, and Fredrick Nebel, one of the masters of the form. • A never before published Dashiell Hammett story. • Every other major pulp writer of the time, including Paul Cain, Steve Fisher, James M. Cain, Horace McCoy, and many many more of whom you’ve probably never heard. • Three deadly sections–The Crimefighters, The Villains, and Dames–with three unstoppable introductions by Harlan Coben, Harlan Ellison, and Laura Lippman Featuring: • Plenty of reasons for murder, all of them good. • A kid so smart–he’ll die of it. • A soft-hearted loan shark’s legman learning–the hard way–never to buy a strange blonde a hamburger. • The uncanny “Moon Man” and his mad-money victims.