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Darkly perfect world

colonial adventure, postmodernism, and American noir

Stanley Orr · Jan 1, 2010 · 248 pages · eng

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The continental operations of Dashiell Hammett -- Raymond Chandler's semi-tropical romance -- Late romantic adventure and film noir -- Veterans of noir : rewriting the good war with Chester Himes, Dorothy B. Hughes, and John Okada -- Noir and the postmodern novel -- To look at him or read him : the confidence man in postmodernist film noir -- Conclusion. Connected guys : the reconstructed subject of 1990s film noir.