Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction. Ties Are Out
Chapter One. The Continental Operations of Dashiell Hammett
Chapter Two. Raymond Chandler’s Semi-tropical Romance
Chapter Three. Dark Places: Late-Victorian Adventure and Film Noir
Chapter Four. Veterans of Noir: Rewriting the Good War with Chester Himes, Dorothy B. Hughes, and John Okada
Chapter Five. Noir and the Postmodern Novel
Chapter Six. To Look at Him or Read Him: The Confidence Man in Postmodernist Film Noir
Conclusion. Connected Guys: The Reconstructed Subject of 1990s Film Noir
Notes
Works Cited
Index