Hard-boiled detective

As the sun rose over the American ground on that particular May morning, no one was expecting the man who would eventually be known as the father of hard-boiled detective fiction to be born. Dashiell Hammett did not have the most ideal life, yet he would one day become an incredibly well known author of detective fiction; often, his novels would be based off of his actual life experiences. In Saint Mary’s county, Maryland, on the 27th of May, year 1894, Dashiell Hammett was born. Although he was

It was the same woman that spoke with Anna Greenfield last time. The woman smiled at him and moved aside to give him space. Detective Licht was about to press the button for the fourth floor when he noticed it has already lit up. He turned to the woman in question. “You live on the fourth floor too?” His question startled the woman and she slowly nodded her head, still lost at the situation. “NYPD,” He flashed his badge. “Can you tell me about the relationship between John and Anna Greenfield

Investigator of The Longman Anthology of Detective Fiction it says, “The original world of the hard-boiled detective was clearly a male one, where women were suspect and dangerous.” (as cited in Mansfield-Kelley and Marchino, 2005, p.207). In the cases of Double Indemnity, directed by Billy Wilder, and The Gutting of Couffignal, wrote by Dashiell Hammett, this is exactly the case. Both are, in the case of Double Indemnity based off of, hard-boiled detective stories in which the women are cunning,

multifaceted director, whose films are often overshadowed by personal tragedies the director has suffered with over the length of his film career. His film Chinatown, however, is able to tap into that great classic film noir quality of the cynical, hard-boiled detective, and the femme fatale that was popular from the 1940s to the late 1950s. The cornerstone of which was “set by Dashiell Hammett, and its greatest practitioner was Raymond Chandler. To observe Humphrey Bogart in Hammett’s The Maltese Falcon

There are constant rules that pervade our society and control how exactly one must live and many unspoken rules of common decency as well. In the late 1940’s, these rules played a stronger role by separating the US by cultural and racial barriers which many believed were unbreakable and had to be followed thoroughly since this type of lifestyle had been ingrained in their culture for so long. The characters in the book, Devil in a Blue Dress, by Walter Mosley display how life was in Los Angeles at

It could be said that The Skull beneath the Skin is quite typical of the crime genre, however P.D. James has somewhat subverted the genre. The novel incorporates a combination of Intuitionist, Realist and Hard Boiled styles of crime fiction. Usually crime novels fall into one of the three afore mentioned styles. Although obviously an Intuitionist or classically styled crime novel, Skull beneath the Skins as I have previously stated incorporates all three creating a unique novel while still following

keeps her novel as naked as she possibly could while staying in the mystery genre. However, what is most interesting is that Satake, a sort of an antagonist for this novel without a protagonist, fits best the ‘detective’ role in a hard-boiled mystery thriller. Though at first the actual detective, as he believes that Stake isn’t their man, who seems to unveil the “mystery,” it is Satake who puts everything together in the end. Even his dramatic death is fitting of a tragic hero (with more than his share

Category One – Context Context investigates a text’s personal, social and historical context. Blade Runner, directed by Ridley Scott, was first released in 1982. At this time, computers were at an all-time high in popularity and productivity, businesses were booming and the environment was being ignored for financial profits. All of these values had an impact on the way Blade Runner was written and directed. Blade Runner was released right in the middle of the ‘Computer-Age.’ This was the period

Dashiell Hammett detective novel The Maltese Falcon 1930 or seen the classic 1941 film adaptation, which follows the novel almost verbatim, can feel a strong sense of familiarity, faced for the first time in history. In this book, Hammett invented the hard-boiled private eye genre, introducing many of the elements that readers have come to expect from detective stories: mysterious, attractive woman whose love can be a trap , search for exotic icon that people are willing to kill the detective, who plays

Red Wind is a detective/crime short story by Raymond Chandler written in 1946 which also falls into the genre called hard-boiled fiction with characters and settings with crime fiction mostly detective stories. The plot of Red Winds is a theme for violence and death which mostly happens in these detective novels “Chandler’s use of literary techniques are clever in design and subtle in their application” (Moon, 2012). The task was to read the first few pages of Red Wind but I wanted to know the