French and American noir : dark crossings / Alistair Rolls and Deborah Walker.

There is a longstanding misconception surrounding the term French noir, according to which the post-war French thriller and film noir were merely a development of, or response to, a pre-existing American tradition. This book aims to challenge this understanding of French noir, at once examining the...

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Main Authors: Rolls, Alistair, 1971- (Author), Walker-Morrison, Deborah (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Basingstoke [England] ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
Series:Crime files series.
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