Jump to ContentJump to Main Navigation
Film Noir, American Workers, and Postwar Hollywood$
Users without a subscription are not able to see the full content.
Film Noir, American Workers, and Postwar Hollywood

Dennis Broe

Print publication date: 2009

Print ISBN-13: 9780813033228

Published to Florida Scholarship Online: September 2011

DOI: 10.5744/florida/9780813033228.001.0001

Show Summary Details
Page of

PRINTED FROM FLORIDA SCHOLARSHIP ONLINE (www.florida.universitypressscholarship.com). (c) Copyright University Press of Florida, 2022. All Rights Reserved. An individual user may print out a PDF of a single chapter of a monograph in FLASO for personal use.date: 03 July 2022

The Home-front Detective as Dissident Lawman (and -woman)

The Home-front Detective as Dissident Lawman (and -woman)

Hammett, Chandler, Woolrich, and 1940s Hollywood

Chapter:
(p.xxxvi) (p.1) chapter 1 The Home-front Detective as Dissident Lawman (and -woman)
Source:
Film Noir, American Workers, and Postwar Hollywood
Author(s):

Dennis Broe

Publisher:
University Press of Florida
DOI:10.5744/florida/9780813033228.003.0001

This chapter examines the character of the wartime home-front detective in Hollywood films during the 1940s and discusses the similarity of this detective to his counterpart in the assembly line. It analyzes the film adaptations of several crime novels including Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese Falcon, Raymond Chandler's Murder My Sweet, and Cornell Woolrich's Black Angel.

Keywords:   detective, Hollywood films, Dashiell Hammett, Maltese Falcon, Raymond Chandler, Murder My Sweet, Cornell Woolrich, Black Angel

Florida Scholarship Online requires a subscription or purchase to access the full text of books within the service. Public users can however freely search the site and view the abstracts and keywords for each book and chapter.

Please, subscribe or login to access full text content.

If you think you should have access to this title, please contact your librarian.

To troubleshoot, please check our FAQs , and if you can't find the answer there, please contact us .