Thesis (M.A.) from the year 2006 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,3, Bielefeld University (Linguistik und Literaturwissenschaft, Anglistik), language: English, abstract: Inhaltsangabe: Abstract: I have chosen the two films that will be subjected to examination in this work because they have a lot in common at first glance. Their scripts are based on crime novels of the so called hardboiled school, a stream in American popular literature that developed after the First World War. They were both filmed in the 1940s and produced by the Warner Brothers studio. No scholarly or...