Reluctant Sleuths, True Detectives.

Explores the figure of the detective as a pursuer of knowledge in four noir films.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jacobs, Jason
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
Published: Albany : State University of New York Press, 2023.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:SUNY Series, Horizons of Cinema Ser.
Online Access:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.18254722
Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: The Long Goodbye
  • The Long Goodbye: Floating above the Genre
  • 1 Out of the Past
  • "All I can see is the frame."
  • 2 Notorious
  • 3 Vertigo
  • 4 Chinatown
  • Conclusion: True Detectives
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.