Creatures of Darkness: Raymond Chandler, Detective Fiction, and Film Noir
Author:   Gene D. Phillips
Publisher:   The University Press of Kentucky
Edition:   New edition
ISBN:  

9780813190426


Pages:   350
Publication Date:   19 April 2003
Format:   Paperback
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Creatures of Darkness: Raymond Chandler, Detective Fiction, and Film Noir


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Author:   Gene D. Phillips
Publisher:   The University Press of Kentucky
Imprint:   The University Press of Kentucky
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.514kg
ISBN:  

9780813190426


ISBN 10:   0813190428
Pages:   350
Publication Date:   19 April 2003
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Ambition and the Paradox of Power in America: A Desire to Rule and a Desire for Dignity The Ambition of Moral Citizens: Belonging and the Limits of the Moral Community The Ambition of Interests: American Constitutionalism The Ambition of Popular Control: Jacksonian Democracy and American Populism The Ambition to Recover Democratic Excellence: Tocqueville and Franklin Delano Roosevelt To Flatter and Obey: The Triumph of Ambition Keeping Ambition Accountable: A Place for Political Parties The Collapse of Modern Citizenship

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An opulent repository of material on the premier American noirist. - Choice; """"Phillips constantly dazzles with both the precision of his presentation and the power of his analysis."""" - Lester Keyser


An opulent repository of material on the premier American noirist. - Choice; Phillips constantly dazzles with both the precision of his presentation and the power of his analysis. - Lester Keyser


An opulent repository of material on the premier American noirist. - Choice; Phillips constantly dazzles with both the precision of his presentation and the power of his analysis. - Lester Keyser


Author Information

Gene D. Phillips, S.J., teaches at Loyola University of Chicago and is the author of books about Alfred Hitchcock and Stanley Kubrick and numerous studies of fiction and film.

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