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Creatures of Darkness : Raymond Chandler, Detective Fiction, and Film Noir by Gene D. Phillips is a performing arts available to read on EtoBox.
What is Creatures of Darkness : Raymond Chandler, Detective Fiction, and Film Noir about?
"[An] exhaustively researched survey of Raymond Chandler's thorny relationship with Hollywood during the classic period of film noir." —Alain Silver, film producer and author Raymond Chandler's seven novels, including The Big Sleep (1939) and The Long Goodbye (1953), with their pessimism and grim realism, had a direct influence on the emergence of film noir. Chandler worked to give his crime novels the flavor of his adopted city, Los Angeles, which was still something of a frontier town, rife wi
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It is typically read by artists, cooks, musicians and hobbyists working from how-to references.
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- Author
- Gene D. Phillips
- Publisher
- The University Press of Kentucky
- Published
- 2003
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780813160016
- Category
- performing arts
- Subjects
- Mystery, History, Fiction
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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