Hardboiled Essays

Greed Expressed in the Maltese Falcon Crime. Secrets. These words are often associated with the mystery genre. What often comes to mind is the common detective story, where a crime and a detective are introduced. Then, the heroic detective apprehends the culprit by deduction from clues. However, in the 1920s, a new era of crime fiction arose: American hard-boiled crime fiction. In this type of crime fiction, a sense of “graphic sex and violence, vivid but often sordid urban backgrounds, and fast-paced

Warping the conventions of the hard-boiled detective genre facilitates the ability of the audience to distinctively explore ideas and attitudes present within Marele Day’s prose fiction, ‘The Life and Crimes of Harry Lavender’. The representation of the protagonist, Claudia Valentine, subverts both gender stereotypes associated with the hard-boiled genre as well as the conventions of the genre, which serves to provoke a renewed perception of the novel. In addition, Day uniquely personifies a city

Abstract Eric Edgar Cooke the ‘Night Caller’ has struck Perth with murder, stabbings, hit-and-runs and burglaries which during 1931-64 until his death. Due to a neglected childhood with a alcoholism father and bullying Cooke’s murderous out take on the world and random killings not only make his next target difficult to find but also Cooke himself. Studies on Cooke have shown his psychopathic styles of killing are not only unique but also the work of a ‘Nedland monster’ in Perth district. As Cooke

The prologue of Waltz into Darkness undermines any romantic illusions as the story itself begins, circa 1900, introducing us to a wealthy Cuban coffee planter named Luis Durand who anticipates the arrival of a mail order bride named Julia Russell (Jolie). Handsome and rich, he has never married ("Love is not for me. Love is for those people who believe in it"). His expectations for the bride are realistic: "She is not meant to be beautiful. She is meant to be kind, true and young enough to bear

Waiting on every exhausting whim of an 18 year old preserved corpse sounds absurd and impossible, but for H.P. Lovecraft’s first person narrator in “Cool Air” it is a shocking reality. The strategic application of first person point of view keeps the reader on edge with a limited view. Any other point of view would reveal too much information on the pivotal Doctor Muñoz, and not allow access to the narrator's thoughts and emotions. First person point of view in H.P. Lovecraft’s “Cool Air” connects

Mark Haddon's prose fiction, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time brings forth the view of a different world and also expands our understanding of human experience. The novel is an autobiographical murder mystery narrated from the perspective of a teenager, Christopher Boone. This text allows the readers to see the life of a young man who is not comfortable with interacting with others in his society. Christopher's autism spectrum disorder (ASD) shapes our understanding of experience

Film noir is a style of filmmaking that began after World War 2, and it focused on darker themes and settings. Most commonly, this style of film is set in a city with rampant crime and corruption, with the characters and protagonist being morally ambiguous. Where the sidewalk ends was created in this style with its stylistic choices and its focus on settings with police corruption, an anti-hero protagonist, and a femme fatale. The film Where the Sidewalk Ends directed by Otto Preminger is a film

Topic Number 2, the use of backgrounds, landscapes, architectures and “sets.” Raymond Chandler and Ed McBain are two flagships in detective fictions. Chandler’s Philip Marlowe brought readers a series of hot-blooded fictional detective stories that happened in Los Angeles (LA). McBain, the commander of the 87th Precinct, excited readers with many raw and realistic detective stories happened in “the city”, an imaginary city that based on New York City (NYC). If there’s one thing that Chandler and

Blue Velvet and Twin Peaks, directed by David Lynch, can be considered crime fiction films, with noticeable archetypes of the genre contained within. Moreover, these two distinct films can be considered subversive and their director, David Lynch, as an auteur director. This essay will begin to discuss the notion of the auteur and how Lynch fits this concept, while thinking of Blue Velvet and Twin Peaks as post-modern products. Furthermore, the two texts in question will be considered as crime fiction

The Dancer and The Thief by Antonio Skármeta is an attractive, energetic, and a genre-bending tale of crime and love. The book combined a series of crime melodrama, urban Western and social conscience drama. The story begins after General Augusta Pinochet was removed from the office. He was removed from his office for his evil acts to the people. Lots of people had arrested, died, and tortured during his regime. The police and the prison systems still remained unsolved after Pinochet was removed

In both the films Romeo and Juliet and The Great Gatsby Baz Luhrmann uses the same specific style of storytelling to ensure his audience remains captivated throughout the entire movie. Through the editing choices, lighting, camera work, music choices and actor choices he shows how his style grips the audience. Luhrmann has a definite way of telling stories. In both Romeo and Juliet and The Great Gatsby he uses a prologue to narrate the story. Both are used to provide the audience with initial information

Even though it may be just a stereotype, the Scottish people are not generally known for their joyful nature and friendliness. No wonder, considering the geographical location of the country, the weather and the scarce population in the wild landscape. Kilts, mysterious countryside full of lochs and ruined castles, back pipes, whiskey and Brave Heart is what usually comes to people’s minds when Scotland is mentioned, but legends and nature are not exactly what the contemporary Scottish films usually

The Hard-boiled Detective had plenty of influence on American popular culture stemming from its roots in the 1920’s. These novels entertained tons of people throughout the country and abroad. But it had become a big influence on the youth at that time and helped shape the future. The implications that it left helped many people become literate. These Detective books were not too expensive due to the fact that they were pulp fiction. Pulp refers to the way that the paper was made, it became

Maltese Falcon novel is a hardboiled novel. It characterizes the era of prohibition in San Francisco. The era of prohibition in San Francisco was an era where there was a sharp rise in mobs and crimes. Women were not left out of these changes. This was when some group of women will become known as flappers. Brigid O’Shaughnessy can be known as a young lady who took on to the flapper’s culture. The name the Maltese Falcon does not really reveal the novel as a dark and hardboiled novel enough. The 1972

unsentimental style of writing that brought a new tone of earthy realism or naturalism to the field of detective fiction. Hard boiled fiction used graphic sex and violence, vivid but often sordid urban background, and first paced, slangy dialogues. Hardboiled science fiction is a genre that blends noir with an American style detective fiction, within a much defined boundary. Born in America during the 1920s, hard-boiled fiction owes its enduring literary style to three writers: Dashiell Hammett, Raymond

4. Summary on “Women Detectives” by Maureen T. Reddy Introduction In this chapter, Maureen T. Reddy analyzes the development of crime fiction in the aspect of the rise of female novelists and women detectives in crime fiction through enumerating various writers with their magnum opus. Therefore, the origin of female detectives and the changes of feminist crime fiction will be summarized in this passage. Summary In the first part of this chapter, the author illustrates that female novelists

the guns, and cigars as well as hot women and men, discussing the social values of through conventions, but first, what text? The Maltese Falcon reflects the period of the 1920s classifying it as hard-boiled. Hardboiled, refers to a person devoid of emotions and is morally ambiguous. Hardboiled crime fiction aims to make social commentaries on the corruption and hypocrisy of the power imbalance which was due to the great depression. Hard-boiled detective novels gave the common people a voice to criticise

In “The Simple Art of Murder”, by Raymond Chandler, he writes out the guidelines that are needed to able to call a detective story good. Chandler also wrote a book called The Big Sleep that is a detective story about two out of control sisters, a hardboiled detective, murders, and never ending of twist and turns. Chandler does follow his guidelines when he wrote The Big Sleep by being realistic, element uplift, fools the reader, and honest to the reader. Fiction can seem realistic, in which Chandler

Rhetorical Analysis Noir is a literary genre, similar to hardboiled genre, with a difference in that the protagonist of the story isn’t a detective but instead either a victim, a suspect, or a criminal. Usually the protagonist of the noir fiction deals with the legal, political, or other system that is corrupt, leading to a lose-lose situation for them. Hard-boiled detective fiction is a genre that shares some characters and settings with crime fiction. The protagonist is a detective, who tends

Mystery means being difficult or impossible to understand or explain. Mystery fiction can be categorized into traditional mystery, legal thriller, medical thriller, cozy mystery, police procedural and hardboiled ( Wikipedia 2016).The perfect mystery is that which will have your hair standing on the ends, and have you guessing all the way. For this week's assignment I read, The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar A. Poe. In this story, the narrator tells how they planned on murdering an old man , just because