Skip to main content Accessibility help

We use cookies to distinguish you from other users and to provide you with a better experience on our websites. Close this message to accept cookies or find out how to manage your cookie settings.

Close cookie message
×
Hostname: page-component-cd9895bd7-mkpzs Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-12-22T20:50:40.168Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

9 - Noir fiction and the Western city

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 May 2016

By
Lee Clark Mitchell
Edited by
Steven Frye
Steven Frye
Affiliation:
California State University, Bakersfield
Get access
Type
Chapter
Information
The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of the American West , pp. 103 - 118
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2016

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Works Cited

Cain, James M. The Postman Always Rings Twice, Double Indemnity, Mildred Pierce, and Selected Stories. New York: Knopf, 2003.Google Scholar
Cawelti, John G. Adventure, Mystery, and Romance: Formula Stories as Art and Popular Culture. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1976.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Chandler, Raymond. Later Novels and Other Writings. New York: Library of America, 1995. Print.Google Scholar
Chandler, Raymond. Raymond Chandler Speaking. Ed. Gardiner, Dorothy and Walker, Katherine Sorley. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. Print.Google Scholar
Chandler, Raymond. Stories and Early Novels. New York: Library of America, 1995. Print.Google Scholar
Goulart, Ron. The Dime Detectives. New York: Mysterious Press, 1988. Print.Google Scholar
Hammett, Dashiell. Dashiell Hammett: Complete Novels. New York: The Library of America, 1999. Print.Google Scholar
Hammett, Dashiell. Dashiell Hammett: Crime Stories and Other Writings. New York: The Library of America, 2001. Print.Google Scholar
Lehman, David. The Perfect Murder: A Study in Detection. New York: Free Press, 1989. Print.Google Scholar
Macdonald, Ross. [Millar, Kenneth]. The Barbarous Coast (1956). In Archer in Hollywood. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1967. 347–528. Print.Google Scholar
Macdonald, Ross. The Drowning Pool. New York: Garland, 1976. Print.Google Scholar
Macdonald, Ross. Meet Me at the Morgue. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1953. Print.Google Scholar
Macdonald, Ross. The Moving Target (1949). New York: Vintage, 1999. Print.Google Scholar
Macdonald, Ross. Self-Portrait: Ceaselessly into the Past. Santa Barbara, CA: Capra Press, 1981. Print.Google Scholar
Macdonald, Ross. The Underground Man. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1971. Print.Google Scholar
Macdonald, Ross. The Way Some People Die (1951). In Archer in Hollywood. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1967. 171–346. Print.Google Scholar
Macdonald, Ross. “The Writer as Detective Hero” (1973). In Robin W. Winks (ed.) Detective Fiction: A Collection of Critical Essays. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1980. 179–187. Print.Google Scholar
Macdonald, Ross. The Wycherly Woman (1961). New York: Vintage Books, 1998.Google Scholar
MacShane, Frank. The Life of Raymond Chandler. New York: E. P. Dutton. 1976. Print.Google Scholar
Marcus, Steven. “Dashiell Hammett” (1974). In Glen W. Most and William W. Stowe (eds.) The Poetics of Murder: Detective Fiction and Literary Theory. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1983. 197–209.Google Scholar
Nolan, William F. The “Black Mask” Boys: Masters in the Hard-Boiled School of Detective Fiction. New York: William Morrow and Co., Inc., 1985. Print.Google Scholar
Nolan, William F.. Dashiell Hammett: A Casebook. Santa Barbara, CA: McNally and Loftin, 1969. Print.Google Scholar
O’Brien, Geoffrey. Hardboiled America: Lurid Paperbacks and the Masters of Noir (1981). 2nd ed. New York: De Capo P, 1997. Print.Google Scholar
Parker, Dorothy. “Oh Look, A Good Book!” Constant Reader. New York: Viking, 1970. 134–136.Google Scholar
Porter, Dennis. The Pursuit of Crime: Art and Ideology in Detective Fiction. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1981.Google Scholar
Skenazy, Paul. James M. Cain. New York: Continuum, 1989. Print.Google Scholar
Smith, Erin A. Hard-Boiled: Working-Class Readers and Pulp Magazines. Philadelphia. PA: Temple University Press, 2000. Print.Google Scholar
Wolfe, Peter. Beams Falling: The Art of Dashiell Hammett. Bowling Green, OH: Bowling Green University Popular Press, 1980. Print.Google Scholar
The World of Raymond Chandler. Ed. Gross, Miriam. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1977. Print.Google Scholar

Save book to Kindle

To save this book to your Kindle, first ensure [email protected] is added to your Approved Personal Document E-mail List under your Personal Document Settings on the Manage Your Content and Devices page of your Amazon account. Then enter the ‘name’ part of your Kindle email address below. Find out more about saving to your Kindle.

Note you can select to save to either the @free.kindle.com or @kindle.com variations. ‘@free.kindle.com’ emails are free but can only be saved to your device when it is connected to wi-fi. ‘@kindle.com’ emails can be delivered even when you are not connected to wi-fi, but note that service fees apply.

Find out more about the Kindle Personal Document Service.

Available formats
×

Save book to Dropbox

To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Dropbox.

Available formats
×

Save book to Google Drive

To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Google Drive.

Available formats
×