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Paperback: 328 pages
Publisher: University of Georgia Press; New Ed edition (31 Oct 1998)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0820320811
ISBN-13: 978-0820320816
Product Dimensions: 22.8 x 15.2 x 2 cm
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Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 910,924 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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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 1920s and 1930s leads to a sweeping critique of Jazz-Age and Depression-era culture, integrating economic history, biography, consumer product design, narrative analysis and film scholarship. Taking a closer look at noir classics by Dashiell Hammett, James M. Cain and Raymond Chandler, Marling reads these narratives first as novels, then as films, showing how they helped Americans adapt - for better or worse - to a society driven by economic and technological forces beyond their control.