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William Marling,Ph.D. Professor of English, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA

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History of the Hard-Boiled

The Black Mask School 

Erle Stanley Gardner

Raoul Whitfield

Frederick Lewis Nebel

Horace McCoy

Paul Cain

W.R. Burnett

Cornell Woolrich

Classic Writers

Dashiell Hammett

James M. Cain

Raymond Chandler

Ross Macdonald (Kenneth Millar)

Development of Hard-Boiled Narrative

The Second Generation

Mickey Spillane

Jim Thompson

Joseph Wambaugh

Elmore Leonard Jr.

George V. Higgins

Robert B. Parker

James Ellroy

Early Female Authors of Hard-Boiled Writing

Sara Paretsky

Sue Grafton

Chester Himes and Early Afro-American Detectives

Walter Mosley

Major Works

Red Harvest (1927) by Dashiell Hammett

The Maltese Falcon (1929) by Dashiell Hammett

The Glass Key (1931) by Dashiell Hammett

The Big Sleep (1939) by Raymond Chandler

Farewell, My Lovely (1940) by Raymond Chandler

The Long Goodbye (1953) by Raymond Chandler

The Galton Case (1959) by Ross Macdonald

The Underground Man (1971) by Ross Macdonald

Cotton Comes to Harlem (1965) by Chester Himes

Characteristics of the Genre

The Hero/ Heroine

The Detective Code

Themes

Villains

The Femme Fatale

Imagery in Hard-Boiled Detective Fiction

The Genre's Later Evolution

Criticism, 1930 to the Present

Detective Fiction in Comics, Radio, and Television

Film Noir

Film Noir: A Brief History

Reactions against Early Crime Movies

Humphrey Bogart

The Public Enemy (1931)

German Expressionism

High Sierra (1941)

The Maltese Falcon (1941)

Double Indemnity (1944)

More Film Noir (brief takes on The Glass Key (1942), Murder, My Sweet (1944), Farewell, My Lovely (1975), The Big Sleep (1946), The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946, 1981), The Lady in the Lake (1947), The Lady From Shanghai (1949), Criss Cross (1949), D.O.A. ((1950), The Asphalt Jungle (1950), Sunset Boulevard (1950), Kiss Me Deadly (1955), Touch of Evil (1958), Chinatown (1974), Taxi Driver (1976), Body Heat (1981), and The Ususual Suspects (1995).

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Bibliography of Works

Bibligraphy of Scholarship

Ideas for Papers

Glossary of Terms

 

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*Please note: the italicized phrase should be the specific pagename that you are quoting.

** This site was updated on June 6, 2007