The mysterious romance of murder : crime, detection, and the spirit of noir / David Lehman.
| Author/creator | Lehman, David, 1948- author. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2022. |
| Description | ix, 281 pages ; 23 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Introduction: the Mysterious Romance of Murder -- Part I. Killer Style -- Cracking Wise -- Paradise of the Damned: Eighteen Notes on Noir -- Poetry noir -- Five Noir Poems -- "Perfidia" -- "Laura" -- "Witness to a Murder" -- "Formula" -- "Just a Couple of Mugs" -- Part II. Elements of Crime -- Here's to Crime -- Last Cigarette -- Among My Souvenirs -- Part III. Auteurs -- Great British Spymasters -- Limits of Logic: Trent's Last Case (E. C. Bentley) -- Dashiell Hammett's Priceless Patter -- Paperclip (Raymond Chandler) -- "Grim Grin" (Graham Greene) -- Rex Stout: The Emperor of Couronne de Canard -- Ida Lupino: the First Lady of Noir -- Black Friday (David Goodis) -- Orange Noir (Charles Willeford) -- Ed McBain: the Man from Isola -- Hitchcock's America -- Part IV. Dream That Money Can Buy -- Straight Down the Line: Billy Wilder's Double indemnity (1944) -- Strangers and Mirrors: Orson Welles's The Stranger (1946) and The Lady from Shanghai (1947) -- Exchange of Bullets in Belfast: Carol Reed's Odd Man Out (1947) -- Blind Accidents: John Huston's The Asphalt Jungle (1950) -- Epitaph for a Genre: Stanley Kubrick's The Killing (1956) -- Shadow of Evil: Robert Mitchum in Cape Fear (1962) -- Reluctant Spy's Conversion: William Holden in The Counterfeit Traitor (1962) -- Gangsters in Love: Sergio Leone's Once Upon a Time in America (1984) -- Rogue's Gallery -- Why Not New York? -- Part V. Imp of the Perverse -- Three astrological Profiles -- Barbara Stanwyck (July 16) -- Graham Greene (October 2) -- Marlene Dietrich (December 27). |
| Abstract | "The Mysterious Romance of Murder is about mysteries, murder-mystery movies and books, and about the romance of "noir" as a style, an outlook, a spirit"-- Provided by publisher. |
| General note | Includes indexes. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Lehman, David, 1948- Mysterious romance of murder. Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2022 9781501763632 |
| Genre/form | Criticism, interpretation, etc. |
| LCCN | 2021048703 |
| ISBN | 9781501763625 (hardcover) |
| ISBN | 1501763628 |
| ISBN | (epub) |
| ISBN | (pdf) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joyner | General Stacks | PN3448 .D4 L425 2022 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |