Hard-boiled detective

Film noir stemmed from American and English hard-boiled detective novels, originating in 1925 (Borde 15). These intriguing books captivated readers and remained popular for many years. A popular noir writer is Dashiell Hammet, whose work inspired the widely known film noir The Maltese Falcon (1941), which is a book originally written by Hammet in 1929 (15). Around 1940, film noir became wildly popular due to the Great Depression. Several films were released between 1940 and 1942, including The Maltese

In this paper I argue that in Walter Mosley's White Butterfly, Mosley uses the detective genre to counter stereotypes and myths regarding black masculinity. Mosley uses the protagonist Easy Rawlins to restore the image of the black man in America and to give readers a better understanding of black men in America. Easy Rawlins in many aspects can be seen as a role model. The book was published in 1992 and the setting is 1956, in Watts, Los Angeles California. A few years into the Civil Rights movement

In traditional hard-boiled American detective fiction there are many themes that seem to transcend all novels. One of those themes is the concept of power and the role in which it plays in the interaction and development of characters. More specifically, the role of women within the novels can be scrutinized to better understand the power they hold over the other characters, their own lives and the direction of the story. Dashiell Hammett’s The Maltese Falcon exemplifies the varying ways in which

women are murdered and the police have hard time solving the crime (Surber 112). “Edger Allen Poe credited with inventing the detective story 1841” (David 3). This and entirely of Poe’s “tales of ratiocination” feature the chevalier C. Augaste Dupin, a brilliant amateur investigator or detective, who, by an intense analysis of motives and evidences, solves crimes that are mystifying to the police.

your chosen film adhere to or diverge from the generic convention at play within the genre of the chosen film? ‘The Big Sleep' (1946) starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall is one of Raymond Chandler's best hard-boiled detective mysteries transformed in to a Film Noir, private detective film classic. The Big Sleep is the best example of a classic Warner Brothers mystery. It is very complex, confusing L.A. private eye Phillip Marlowe takes on a blackmail case and follows a trail peopled

In Walter Mosley 's White Butterfly, Mosley uses the detective genre to counter stereotypes and myths regarding black masculinity. The book was published in 1992 and the story takes place in 1952 in Watts, Los Angeles California. The main character of the story is Ezekiel "Easy" Rawlins and he is the main resource used by Mosley to redeem the image of the black man. Easy Rawlins is a hard-boiled detective which means he is a cynical investigator with pejorative tendencies. It is an analogy made

Immediately absorbing and thoroughly entertaining, Roy Britt's, Drone the second book in his Eli Quinn detective series, capably resumes the series with the hard-boiled but good intentioned, private eye this time looking to solve a bold attempt of a public official. This was an entertaining narrative from the beginning, with Eli Quinn, private eye, officially opens his detective agency in the town of Pleasant, Arizona. Pleasant is a small town with a growing population of illegal immigrants who

Claudia Valentine is a character that is an enigmatic and codified by the crime fiction genre. She is cleverly introduced in such a manner which is stereotypical of the traditional hard boiled detective with the alcohol, cigarettes and ‘blonde’ in the bed. These crime fiction conventions re-contextualized her in terms of her gender so to explore a more sinister aspect of humanity and the qualities that she possesses. Within Claudia, Day has

That was not only seen in day to activities but was strongly depicted in detective novels, both the classical and the hard boiled stories. Women were seen as less,not worthy of being spoken to with respect, told to “strip down” and just all around treated as less of person and spoken to as if they were dog. While women are detectives, they are still seen under the male detectives, women were seen as less in the detective fictions because the male roles tend to belittle

The Big Sleep talks about a dying millionaire General Sternwood hires Philip Marlowe (private detective) to handle the blackmailer of Carmen Sternwood, one of his wild daughters. With further investigation， Marlowe finds himself involved with more than extortion. The Big Sleep is Raymond Chandler’s first novel. It has been recognized as a landmark in the history of the American hard-boiled detective novel. It was published in 1939. At that time, the Great Depression was raging and World War II