Neon Noir, the follow-up to Woody Haut's highly regarded Pulp Culture, brings the story of American crime fiction and the related films up to date. From the Kennedy assassination to the Vietnam War and Watergate, through Reaganomics to Irangate and Whitewater, Neon Noir is a roller-coaster ride through the American nightmare. Haut investigates the dark side of America through the work of writers such as James Ellroy, Elmore Leonard, Walter Mosley, James Lee Burke, Lawrence Block, James Sallis, George P. Pelecanos, Charles Willeford, Jerome Charyn, Sara Paretsky, Vicki Hendricks, KC Constantine, George V Higgins and James Crumley.
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Like many people, I often wondered why more fim noir films aren't made. Neon Noir gives a simple answer: they are. It examines how film noir has changed since the 50's and who makes them. It also analyzes contemporary film noir and attempts to explain why film noir has changed as it has.
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Crime writer Eugene Izzi is found dangling from the window of a fourteenth storey office block in Chicago. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Los Angeles, New York, James Ellroy, Elmore Leonard, Child of Rage, Ross Macdonald, Chester Himes, City Primeval, Jim Thompson, Charles Willeford, James Crumley, James Lee Burke, Lawrence Block, Walter Mosley, Central Avenue, James Sallis, Lew Griffin, Black Dahlia, Eddie Coyle, King Blood, Nick Stefanos, Jerome Charyn, Neon Rain, Raymond Chandler, Silence of the Lambs New!
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Crime writer Eugene Izzi is found dangling from the window of a fourteenth storey office block in Chicago. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
neon noir fiction, pulp culture era, future noir fiction, pulp culture writers, modern film noir, hardboiled fiction, noir protagonists, contemporary crime fiction, noir writers, deregulatory policies, investigatory process, crime writers, crime novelists Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Los Angeles, New York, James Ellroy, Elmore Leonard, Child of Rage, Ross Macdonald, Chester Himes, City Primeval, Jim Thompson, Charles Willeford, James Crumley, James Lee Burke, Lawrence Block, Walter Mosley, Central Avenue, James Sallis, Lew Griffin, Black Dahlia, Eddie Coyle, King Blood, Nick Stefanos, Jerome Charyn, Neon Rain, Raymond Chandler, Silence of the Lambs New!
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- City Primeval by Elmore Leonard on 9 pages
- The Black Dahlia by James Ellroy on 8 pages
- Point Blank (American Crime S.) by Richard Stark on 7 pages
- One to Count Cadence by James Crumley on 6 pages
- Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett on 6 pages
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- Contemporary American Crime Novel by Andrew Pepper on page 34, page 75, and page 138
- The Contemporary American Crime Novel: Race, Ethnicity, Class by Andrew Pepper on page 34, and page 138
- Heartbreak and Vine by Woody Haut in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- The Thriller And Northern Ireland Since 1969: Utterly Resigned Terror (Studies in European Cultural Transition) by Aaron Kelly in Back Matter
- The Cambridge Companion to Crime Fiction (Cambridge Companions to Literature) by Martin Priestman in Back Matter
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