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Hollywood's Detectives

Crime Series in the 1930s and 1940s from the Whodunnit to Hard-boiled Noir

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  • © 2012

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Authors:
  1. Fran Mason

    1. Film Studies and American Studies, University of Winchester, UK

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Part of the book series: Crime Files (CF)

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Exploring Detective Films in the 1930s and 1940s: Genre, Society and Hollywood

    • Fran Mason
    Pages 1-27

  3. ‘Such Lovely Friends’: Class and Crime in ‘The Thin Man’ Series

    • Fran Mason
    Pages 28-50

  4. Between Law and Crime: The Chivalric ‘Criminal’ Detective

    • Fran Mason
    Pages 51-78

  5. Englishness and America: Basil Rathbone’s Sherlock Holmes

    • Fran Mason
    Pages 79-105

  6. Ordering the World: The Uncompromising Logic of Charlie Chan and Mr Moto

    • Fran Mason
    Pages 106-130

  7. The Rise of the Hard-boiled Detective

    • Fran Mason
    Pages 131-156

  8. Conclusion: Noir Detectives, Rogue Cops, Undercover Men and Police Procedurals

    • Fran Mason
    Pages 157-170

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 171-187
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The study of Hollywood detectives has often overlooked the B-Movie mystery series in favour of hard-boiled film. Hollywood's Detectives redresses this oversight by examining key detective series of the 1930s and 1940s to explore their contributions to the detective genre.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Film Studies and American Studies, University of Winchester, UK

    Fran Mason

About the author

FRAN MASON Lecturer in Film and American Studies at the University of Winchester, UK, where he teaches in Film Studies and American Studies. He teaches and researches in film and culture with particular interests in Classical Hollywood Cinema, Crime Films and Postmodernism, and is currently researching Assassin Films and representations of the city on film.

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