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In this ambitious work, Mooney seeks to give a broad-based sense of the influence of Dashiell Hammett's work on Hollywood film, demonstrating both great knowledge of and enthusiasm for Hammett's work. --William Luhr Saint Peter's University (03/12/2014) William Mooney's comprehensive survey of Dashiell Hammett's afterlife in the movies combines a logical core Sam Spade would admire with a story that moves as fast as the Continental Op. --Thomas Leitch author of Film Adaptation and Its Discontents (04/14/2014) In this ambitious book, Mooney seeks to give a broad-based sense of the influence of Dashiell Hammett's writings on Hollywood film, demonstrating both great knowledge of and enthusiasm for Hammett's work. --William Luhr Saint Peter's University (03/12/2014)

William Mooney's comprehensive survey of Dashiell Hammett's afterlife in the movies combines a logical core Sam Spade would admire with a story that moves as fast as the Continental Op. --Thomas Leitch author of Film Adaptation and Its Discontents (04/14/2014)

In this ambitious book, Mooney seeks to give a broad-based sense of the influence of Dashiell Hammett's writings on Hollywood film, demonstrating both great knowledge of and enthusiasm for Hammett's work. --William Luhr Saint Peter's University William Mooney's comprehensive survey of Dashiell Hammett's afterlife in the movies combines a logical core Sam Spade would admire with a story that moves as fast as the Continental Op. --Thomas Leitch author of Film Adaptation and Its Discontents

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WILLIAM H. MOONEY is a professor of English and Coordinator of Film and Media at the Fashion Institute of Technology, SUNY. 

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