O'Brien, Geoffrey,  1948- <br/><br/>
Hardboiled America :  lurid paperbacks and the masters of noir / 
Geoffrey O'Brien. 
 - Expanded ed., 1st Da Capo Press ed. 
 - New York :  Da Capo Press,  1997. 
 - 197 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates :  illustrations (some color) ;  23 cm 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-191) and index. 
<br/><br/> Icons on Yellow Paper --  Origins of the Paperbacks --  A Disposable Gallery --  Mythologists of the Hardboiled --  The Paperback Detective and His Discontent --  Afternoon of the Fifties --  Epilogue: The Long Morning After --  The Hardboiled Era: A Checklist, 1920-1960.  Ch. 1.  Ch. 2.  Ch. 3.  Ch. 4.  Ch. 5.  Ch. 6.  Appendix. 
<br/><br/> Dashiell Hammett, Mickey Spillane, James M. Cain, Raymond Chandler, Jim Thompson, David Goodis ... these are a few of the masters of noir responsible for the great lurid paperbacks of the thirties, forties, and fifties. With titles like The Big Sleep, Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye, and Street of the Lost, with racy cover lines like "My gun-butt smashed his skull!" and "Ruthless terror ripped away the mask that hid cold fear", and with some of the most extraordinary cover illustrations ever to grace American literature, these paperbacks held the ingredients of American nightmares. In Hardboiled America -- lavishly illustrated with 135 paperback covers, and expanded with new material on Thompson, Goodis, and others -- Geoffrey O'Brien masterfully explores the art, history, and ideas of the American paperback. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0306807734 9780306807732 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>96037486  
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Chronological Terms: </label><br/>1900-1999 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>American fiction--History and criticism.--20th century<br/>Popular literature--History and criticism.--United States<br/>Illustration of books--United States--20th century.<br/>American fiction--Illustrations.--20th century<br/>Paperbacks--Publishing--History.--United States<br/>Noir fiction, American--History and criticism.<br/>Realism in literature.<br/>American fiction.<br/>Illustration of books.<br/>Noir fiction, American.<br/>Paperbacks--Publishing.<br/>Popular literature.<br/>Realism in literature.<br/>Amerikaans.<br/>Paperbacks.<br/>Romans.<br/>Illustration<br/>Trivialroman<br/>Kriminalroman<br/>Paperback<br/>Roman.<br/>Geschichte (1900- )<br/>Geschichte 1920-1960.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>United States.<br/>USA.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>Geschichte  1930-1960 
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Pictures.<br/>Criticism, interpretation, etc.<br/>History.<br/>Illustrated works.<br/>Pictures.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PS379  / .O2 1997 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>813/.5209