Darkly Perfect World: Colonial Adventure, Postmodernism, and American Noir by Stanley Orr

Darkly Perfect World: Colonial Adventure, Postmodernism, and American Noir

Stanley Orr

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Stanley Orr's Darkly Perfect World offers a large-scale historical narrative about the way American crime fiction and film have changed throughout the twentieth century. Orr argues that films noirs and noir fictions dramatize Raymond Chandler's pr...

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