More than any other writer, Raymond Chandler (1888-1959) is responsible for raising detective stories from the level of pulp fiction to literature. Chandler's hard-boiled private eye Philip Marlowe set the standard for rough, brooding heroes who managed to maintain a strong sense of moral conviction despite a cruel and indifferent world . Chandler's seven novels, including The Big Sleep (1939) and The Long Goodbye (1953), with their pessimism and grim realism, had a direct influence on the emergence of film noir. Chandler worked to give his crime novels the flavor of his adopted city, Los Angeles, which was still something of a frontier town, rife with corruption and lawlessness. In addition to novels, Chandler wrote short stories and penned the screenplays for several films, including Double Indemnity (1944) and Strangers on a Train (1951). His work with Billy Wilder and Alfred Hitchcock on these projects was fraught with the difficulties of collaboration between established directors and an author who disliked having to edit his writing on demand. Creatures of Darkness is the first major biocritical study of Chandler in twenty years. Gene Phillips explores Chandler's unpublished script for Lady in the Lake , examines the process of adaptation of the novel Strangers on a Train, discusses the merits of the unproduced screenplay for Playback , and compares Howard Hawks's director's cut of The Big Sleep with the version shown in theaters. Through interviews he conducted with Wilder, Hitchcock, Hawks, and Edward Dmytryk over the past several decades, Phillips provides deeper insight into Chandler's sometimes difficult personality. Chandler's wisecracking Marlowe has spawned a thousand imitations. Creatures of Darkness lucidly explains the author's dramatic impact on both the literary and cinematic worlds, demonstrating the immeasurable debt that both detective fiction and the neo-noir films of today owe to Chandler's stark vision.

Creatures of Darkness: Raymond Chandler, Detective Fiction, and Film Noir

Humor & Entertainment

Phillips, Gene

Movies

University Press of Kentucky

Daily devotionals to help you read through the Bible in a year.

Gleanings from God's Word: Daily Devotional to Help You Read Through the Bible in a Year

Religion & Spirituality

Phillips, Jean

Christian Books & Bibles

Hannibal Books

At 17 years of age, Blanche Greene answered God's call to missions. Twelve years later, after health problems put on hold her dream of serving overseas, she found a new mission field--as the wife of 49-year-old widower Eugene Jarvis and mother to his six children. Despite age and educational differences, Blanche and Eugene united in their commitment to God, each other, and their children, who included their daughter, Jean. Through the daily grind of running a large household during the Great Depression and World War II, Blanche's constant prayer was to bear spiritual fruit among her family members. The reader will see how God answered her prayer in amazing, miraculous ways.

The Watered Garden

The book deals with five European film directors who were forced to remain in exile in the wake of the rise of Hitler and who subsequently enriched the American motion picture industry with a reservoir of new talent that had been nurtured in Europe. The directors treated are Fritz Lang, William Wyler, Otto Preminger, Fred Zinnemann, and Billy Wilder.

Exiles In Hollywood: Major European Film Directors in America

Arts & Photography

Photography & Video

Lehigh University Press

MINUTES TO MIDNIGHT examines WATCHMEN from a variety of perspectives and uncovers surprising answers about the history of scientific theory, the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, WATCHMEN's murder mystery, Rorschach and Steve Ditko, the secrets of Captain Metropolis and the Minutemen, whether the Comedian was right, who shouldn't read WATCHMEN, and how the motion picture adaptation illuminates the original text. From Sequart Research &amp; Literacy Organization. More info at http://Sequart.org

Minutes to Midnight: Twelve Essays on Watchmen

Comics & Graphic Novels

Meaney, Patrick

Darius, Julian

Klock, Geoff

Loyd, John

Callahan, Timothy

Bensam, Richard

Cormier, Jon

Borsellino, Mary

Hudsick, Walter

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