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As the father of the hardboiled detective genre, Dashiell Hammett had a huge influence on Hollywood. Yet, it is easy to forget how adaptable Hammett's work was, fitting into a variety of genres and inspiring generations of filmmakers. Dashiell Hammett and the Movies offers the first comprehensive look at Hammett's broad oeuvre and how it was adapted into films from the 1930's all the way into the 1990's. Film scholar William H. Mooney reveals the wide range of films crafted from the same Hammett novels, as when The Maltese Falcon was filmed first as a pre-Code sexploitation movie, then as a Bette Davis screwball comedy, and finally as the Humphrey Bogart classic. He also considers how Hammett rose to Hollywood fame not through the genre most associated with him, but through a much fizzier concoction, the witty murder mystery The Thin Man. To demonstrate the hold Hammett still has over contemporary filmmakers, the book culminates in an examination of the Coen brothers' pastiche Miller's Crossing. Mooney not only provides us with an in-depth analysis of Hammett adaptations, he also chronicles how Hollywood enabled the author's own rise to stardom, complete with a celebrity romance and a carefully crafted public persona. Giving us a behind-the-scenes look at the complex power relationships, cultural contexts, and production concerns involved in bringing Hammett's work from the page to the screen, Dashiell Hammett and the Movies offers a fresh take on a literary titan.

Film adaptations --- History and criticism. --- Hammett, Dashiell, --- Hammett, Samuel Dashiell, --- Khėmmet, Dėshil, --- האמט, דשײל, --- המט, דשיאל, --- Хэммет, Дэшил,

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In The American Roman Noir, William Marling reads classic hard-boiled fiction and film in the contexts of narrative theories and American social and cultural history. His search for the origins of the dark narratives that emerged during the 1920s and 1930s leads to a sweeping critique of Jazz-Age and Depression-era culture. Integrating economic history, biography, consumer product design, narrative analysis, and film scholarship, Marling makes new connections between events of the 1920s and 1930s and the modes, styles, and genres of their representation. At the center of Marling's approach is the concept of "prodigality": how narrative represents having, and having had, too much. Never before in this country, he argues, did wealth impinge on the national conscience as in the 1920s, and never was such conscience so sharply rebuked as in the 1930s. What, asks Marling, were the paradigms that explained accumulation and windfall, waste and failure? Marling first establishes a theoretical and historical context for the notion of prodigality. Among the topics he discusses are such watershed events as the trial of Sacco and Vanzetti and the premiere of the first sound movie, The Jazz Singer; technology's alteration of Americans' perceptive and figurative habits; and the shift from synecdochical to metonymical values entailed by a consumer society.

Hammett, Dashiell --- Chandler, Raymond Thornton --- Cain, James M. --- Detective and mystery stories, American --- American fiction --- Detective and mystery films --- Literature and society --- Popular culture --- Noir fiction, American --- Capitalism and literature --- Literature and capitalism --- Literature --- History and criticism --- History --- Hammett, Dashiell, --- Chandler, Raymond, --- צ׳אנדלר, ריימונד, --- צ׳נדלר, ריימונד, --- レイモンドチャンドラー, --- Cain, James Mallahan, --- Kʻein, Cheimsŭ M., --- Hammett, Samuel Dashiell, --- Khėmmet, Dėshil, --- האמט, דשײל, --- המט, דשיאל, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Хэммет, Дэшил,