David Lehman

The Mysterious Romance of Murder

Crime, Detection, and the Spirit of Noir

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Produktbeschreibung

"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"--

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cornell University Press
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Mai 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 147mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9781501763625
• ISBN-10: 1501763628
• Artikelnr.: 62162991

Autorenporträt

David Lehman is a poet and writer whose many books include The Morning Line , Sinatra's Century, and One Hundred Autobiographies. He is the editor of The Oxford Book of American Poetry and The Best American Poetry series. He divides his time between Ithaca and New York City.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Mysterious Romance of Murder
Part I: Killer Style
1. Cracking Wise
2. Paradise of the Damned: Eighteen Notes on Noir
3. Poetry Noir
4. Five Noir Poems
"Perfidia"
"Laura"
"Witness to a Murder"
"The Formula"
"Just a Couple of Mugs"
Part II: The Elements of Crime
5. Here's to Crime!
6. The Last Cigarette
7. Among My Souvenirs
Part III: Auteurs
8. The Great British Spymasters
9. The Limits of Logic: Trent's Last Case (E. C. Bentley)
10. Dashiell Hammett's Priceless Patter
11. Paperclip (Raymond Chandler)
12. "Grim Grin" (Graham Greene)
13. Rex Stout: The Emperor of Couronne de Canard
14. Ida Lupino: The First Lady of Noir
15. Black Friday (David Goodis)
16. Orange Noir (Charles Willeford)
17. Ed McBain: The Man from Isola
18. Hitchcock's America
Part IV: Dreams That Money Can Buy
19. Straight Down the Line: Billy Wilder's Double Indemnity (1944)
20. Strangers and Mirrors: Orson Welles's The Stranger (1946) and The Lady
from Shanghai (1947)
21. An Exchange of Bullets in Belfast: Carol Reed's Odd Man Out (1947)
22. Blind Accidents: John Huston's The Asphalt Jungle (1950)
23. Epitaph for a Genre: Stanley Kubrick's The Killing (1956)
24. Shadow of Evil: Robert Mitchum in Cape Fear (1962)
25. A Reluctant Spy's Conversion: William Holden in The Counterfeit Traitor
(1962)
26. Gangsters in Love: Sergio Leone's Once Upon a Time in America (1984)
27. Rogues' Gallery
28. Why Not New York?
Part V: The Imp of the Perverse
29. Three Astrological Profiles
Barbara Stanwyck (July 16)
Graham Greene (October 2)
Marlene Dietrich (December 27)