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The Thin Man Films Murder Over Cocktails
ISBN: 9781593934002 / Angielski / Miękka / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Thin Man films are one of the most highly regarded and successful series of films from Hollywood's classic era. This book looks at the people who populated the films, including full chapter profiles of its stars, William Powell and Myrna Loy, whose chemistry together was a huge reason for the success of the films. As Nick and Nora Charles they knocked the stereotypes of on-screen marriage out of the park and replaced the stiff and formal with fun and sexy. But not to be forgotten are the great character actors who added their own special magic to each and every film. Each chapter includes...
The Thin Man films are one of the most highly regarded and successful series of films from Hollywood's classic era. This book looks at the people who ...
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128,07 |
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Sebastien Japrisot : The Art of Crime
ISBN: 9789042025349 / Angielski / Miękka / 190 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Influential author of highly unconventional crime fiction, screenwriter, and occasional film director, Sbastien Japrisot was one of those rare contemporary writers in France able to establish an international reputation for himself. Although Japrisot's novels in particular continue to be read and studied across the world, this volume is the first ever academic study of Japrisot's work in the fields of both literature and cinema. Through a combination of thematic and text-specific studies, this volume takes in, and examines the legacy of, Japrisot's work from his youthful writings under his...
Influential author of highly unconventional crime fiction, screenwriter, and occasional film director, Sbastien Japrisot was one of those rare contemp...
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242,78 |
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Tony Hillerman's Landscape: On the Road with an American Legend
ISBN: 9780061374296 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Step into the world of bestselling author Tony Hillerman's novels with Tony Hillerman's Landscape: On the Road with Chee and Leaphorn, a stunning collection of original documentary photographs of the New Mexico and Arizona landscapes that were integral to his detective novels. Narrated by his daughter, Anne Hillerman, with original photos from Don Strel, Tony Hillerman's Landscape is a timely showcase of a hauntingly beautiful region that captured one man's imagination for a lifetime, and is a daughter's loving tribute to her father.
Step into the world of bestselling author Tony Hillerman's novels with Tony Hillerman's Landscape: On the Road with Chee and Leaphorn, a stun...
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114,30 |
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Serial Vigilantes of Paperback Fiction: An Encyclopedia from Able Team to Z-Comm
ISBN: 9780786441655 / Angielski / Miękka / 233 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Rough justice has often been served in the pages of serial novels, notably beginning with Don Pendletons The Executioner in 1969. This is the first overview of the serial vigilante genre, which featured such hard-boiled protagonists as Nick Carter, Mark Stone, Jake Brand and Able Team among the 130 series that followed Pendleton's novel. Serial vigilantes repeatedly take the law into their own hands, establishing and imposing their own moral standards, usually by force. The book examines the connections between the serial vigilante and the pulp hero that preceded him and how the serial...
Rough justice has often been served in the pages of serial novels, notably beginning with Don Pendletons The Executioner in 1969. This is the first ov...
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219,48 |
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Making Murder: The Fiction of Thomas Harris
ISBN: 9780313356247 / Angielski / Twarda / 358 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Making Murder" takes readers deep into the work of Thomas Harris and his iconic creation, Hannibal Lecter one of modern fiction's most unforgettable characters. A former crime reporter, Harris's exhaustive research techniques have included extensive time with the FBI's Behavioral Science Unit studying actual serial killers. Like no other available volume, the book explores the dark heart within Harris's novels the unflinching look at evil that makes them so much more than just "good reads." "Making Murder" looks at all five of Harris's novels, starting with the suspenseful terrorist... "Making Murder" takes readers deep into the work of Thomas Harris and his iconic creation, Hannibal Lecter one of modern fiction's most unforgetta... |
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297,80 |
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Historical Dictionary of Film Noir
ISBN: 9780810859609 / Angielski / Twarda / 532 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Film noir--literally "black cinema"--is the label customarily given to a group of black and white American films, mostly crime thrillers, made between 1940 and 1959. Today there is considerable dispute about what are the shared features that classify a noir film, and therefore which films should be included in this category. These problems are partly caused because film noir is a retrospective label that was not used in the 1940s or 1950s by the film industry as a production category and therefore its existence and features cannot be established through reference to trade documents. The...
Film noir--literally "black cinema"--is the label customarily given to a group of black and white American films, mostly crime thrillers, made between...
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843,85 |
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Against the New Gods and Other Essays on Writers of Imaginative Fiction
ISBN: 9781434457431 / Angielski / Miękka / 188 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Eight highly-readable essays on science fiction and fantasy writers, including David Brin, Jonathan Carroll, Samuel R. Delany, Joe Haldeman, Robert Irwin, Graham Joyce, Michael Shea, plus a major piece, "Against the New Gods," on British SF and crime writer Sydney Fowler Wright. Complete with Bibliography and Index.
Eight highly-readable essays on science fiction and fantasy writers, including David Brin, Jonathan Carroll, Samuel R. Delany, Joe Haldeman, Robert Ir...
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63,99 |
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John Dickson Carr: A Critical Study
ISBN: 9780879724771 / Angielski / Twarda / 195 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. John Dickson Carr is known as the master of the locked-room mystery--the impossible crime. But Carr also wrote short stories, radio plays, essays, introductions, and book reviews. S. T. Joshi has written the first full-length study of Carr's entire work and pays particular attention to this author's three best-known detectives: Henri Bencolin, Dr. Gideon Fell, and Sir Henry Merrivale.
John Dickson Carr is known as the master of the locked-room mystery--the impossible crime. But Carr also wrote short stories, radio plays, essays, int...
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146,29 |
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Comic Crime
ISBN: 9780879723842 / Angielski / Miękka / 202 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The humor of Sherlock Holmes, Donald Westlake, Agatha Christie, Michael Innes, and Edmund Crispin are just a few of those discussed. A major point highlighted by this book is simply that wit, slapstick. laughter, and an anything-can-happen motif appear in a significant amount of fiction about crime.
The humor of Sherlock Holmes, Donald Westlake, Agatha Christie, Michael Innes, and Edmund Crispin are just a few of those discussed. A major point hig...
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56,98 |
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The Defective Detective in the Pulps
ISBN: 9780879722364 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The world of the defective detective was a strange one. Continuing the motif of the mythological hero, this unique detective type emerged in the 1930s in a very imperfect and threatened society. The stories reprinted in this volume reveal just how widely the genre ranged during the Depression. The world of the defective detective was a strange one. Continuing the motif of the mythological hero, this unique detective type emerged in the 19... |
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53,17 |
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Twelve Englishmen of Mystery
ISBN: 9780879722500 / Angielski / Miękka / 332 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. There are hundreds of satisfactory and satisfying British mystery writers whose works should be studied both for their own individual accomplishments and for their comments on the society in which they were published, in the last 150 years, but who have not received any critical comment lately. This volume is designed to correct that fault in a dozen of those unjustifiably neglected British authors: Wilkie Collins, A.E.W. Mason, G.K. Chesterton, H.C. Bailey, Anthony Berkeley Cox, Nicholas Blake, Michael Gilbert, Julian Symons, Dick Francis, Edmund Crispin, H.R.F. Keating, and Simon Brett.
There are hundreds of satisfactory and satisfying British mystery writers whose works should be studied both for their own individual accomplishments ...
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48,73 |
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Ten Women of Mystery
ISBN: 9780879721732 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume, which examines the special contributions of a number of women mystery writers, sheds light on this significant example of common interests in recreational reading among women and men and the reasons behind the early and continuing uncharacteristic near-equality of both sexes in this field of endeavor.
This volume, which examines the special contributions of a number of women mystery writers, sheds light on this significant example of common interest...
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Holocaust as Fiction: Bernhard Schlink's "nazi" Novels and Their Films
ISBN: 9780230108073 / Angielski / Twarda / 251 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Holocaust as Fiction seeks to explain and critically evaluate the extraordinary success of Schlink's internationally acclaimed novel, The Reader, the widely read "Selb" detective trilogy, and two popular films based closely on his work.
Holocaust as Fiction seeks to explain and critically evaluate the extraordinary success of Schlink's internationally acclaimed novel, The Reader, the ...
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342,95 |
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The Cambridge Companion to American Crime Fiction
ISBN: 9780521199377 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From the execution sermons of the Colonial era to television programs like The Wire and The Sopranos, crime writing has played an important role in American culture. Its ability to register fear, desire and anxiety has made it a popular genre with a wide audience. These new essays, written for students as well as readers of crime fiction, demonstrate the very best in contemporary scholarship and challenge long-established notions of the development of the detective novel. Each chapter covers a sub-genre, from true crime' to hard-boiled novels, illustrating the ways in which popular' and high'...
From the execution sermons of the Colonial era to television programs like The Wire and The Sopranos, crime writing has played an important role in Am...
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366,74 |
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Masculinity, Crime and Self-Defence in Victorian Literature: Duelling with Danger
ISBN: 9780230273450 / Angielski / Twarda / 201 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Now in paperback, this book considers crime fighting from the perspective of the civilian city-goer, from the mid-Victorian garotting panics to 1914. It charts the shift from the use of body armour to the adoption of exotic martial arts through the works of popular playwrights and novelists, examining changing ideals of urban, middle-class heroism.
Now in paperback, this book considers crime fighting from the perspective of the civilian city-goer, from the mid-Victorian garotting panics to 1914. ...
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201,72 |
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The Tattooed Girl: The Enigma of Stieg Larsson and the Secrets Behind the Most Compelling Thrillers of Our Time
ISBN: 9780312610562 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The fascinating stories behind what have been rightly called the "hottest books on the planet": The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire, and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest Through insightful commentary and revealing interviews, you will enter the unique world of Lisbeth Salander, Mikael Blomkvist---and of Stieg Larsson himself---discovering the fascinating real-life experiences and incidents involving Swedish politics, violence against women, and neo-Nazis that are at the heart of Larsson's work. John-Henri Holmberg, a Swedish author... The fascinating stories behind what have been rightly called the "hottest books on the planet": The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Pl... |
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99,10 |
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Tony Hillerman's Navajoland: Hideouts, Haunts, and Havens in the Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee Mysteries
ISBN: 9781607811374 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Tony Hillerman is beloved for his novels of intrigue in the American Southwest. In Tony Hillerman s Navajoland, Laurance Linford takes readers on a journey through the Four Corners region to the haunts of Hillerman s characters. Offered in encyclopedic form, each entry gives the common name of a particular location, the Navajo name and history, and a description of the location s significance in various Hillerman novels. An understanding of the Navajo names and their relations to the landscape will lend a new dimension to the characters and events Tony Hillerman created. This...Tony Hillerman is beloved for his novels of intrigue in the American Southwest. In Tony Hillerman s Navajoland, Laurance Linford takes reade... |
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82,88 |
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James M. Cain: Hard-Boiled Mythmaker
ISBN: 9780810881181 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Providing an overview of all of James M. Cain's fiction, including an analysis of the major themes of his entire literary career, the book examines Cain's impact on and importance in 20th-century culture, film in particular.
Providing an overview of all of James M. Cain's fiction, including an analysis of the major themes of his entire literary career, the book examines Ca...
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312,18 |
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The Art of Indirection in British Espionage Fiction: A Critical Study of Six Novelists
ISBN: 9780786463794 / Angielski / Miękka / 225 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In contrast to the classical detective story, the spy novel tends to be considered a less literary genre. While previous studies have focused on historical, thematic & ideological dimensions, this work seeks to distinguish British espionage fiction based on its unique narrative form, which is typically elliptical, oblique & recursive.
In contrast to the classical detective story, the spy novel tends to be considered a less literary genre. While previous studies have focused on histo...
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219,48 |
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Sherlock and Transmedia Fandom: Essays on the BBC Series
ISBN: 9780786468188 / Angielski / Miękka / 251 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The critically-acclaimed BBC television series Sherlock (2010 ) re-envisions Sir Arthur Conan Doyle s detective for the digital age, joining participants in the active traditions of Sherlockians/Holmesians and fans from other communities, including science fiction, media, and anime. This collection explores the cultural intersections and fan traditions that converge in Sherlock and its fandoms. Essays focus on the industrial and cultural contexts of Sherlock s release, on the text of Sherlock as adaptation and transformative work, and on Sherlock s critical...
The critically-acclaimed BBC television series Sherlock (2010 ) re-envisions Sir Arthur Conan Doyle s detective for the digital age, joining pa...
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166,12 |
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