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Criminal Femmes Fatales in American Hardboiled Crime Fiction

Part of the Crime Files Series Book Series

DOI: 10.1057/9781137356475

ISBN: 978-1-349-55758-5

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK - Springer Journals

Dec 23, 2015

1 - 9 of 9 Chapters

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Introduction

Jaber, Maysaa Husam

Pages: 1 –11

[The term “femme fatale” circulates in literary, cinematic, and cultural portrayals of women. As a standard figure (even a cliché) in popular culture, the femme fatale is deemed to be sexually voracious, irresistible, and dangerous, leading men to their ruination. She is an archetype, one as old...
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The “Mad-Bad” Criminal Woman

Jaber, Maysaa Husam

Pages: 12 –31

[In the period between the start of the Great Depression in 1929 and the aftermath of World War II, the United States underwent a large number of social, political, and cultural changes. One manifestation of these changes was the redoubled effort to fight crime through a rather draconian policing...
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Narratives of the Underworld

Jaber, Maysaa Husam

Pages: 35 –51

[Dashiell Hammett’s work redefined crime fiction. His stories, which first appeared in Black Mask magazine in the early 1920s, mark an obvious shift from the classical, mostly British,69 detective story in which the detective is the main crime solver and the events take place in middle-class...
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Narratives of Detection

Jaber, Maysaa Husam

Pages: 52 –72

[Raymond Chandler, who began publishing around the time that Hammett stopped writing, takes a different course from his predecessor regarding the representation of women. While Hammett begins with a formula of sentimentality and medicalization in The Dain Curse, before adopting a criminalization...
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Narratives of Seduction

Jaber, Maysaa Husam

Pages: 73 –101

[James M. Cain did not write detective stories. He wrote stories about murder and love, ones that illustrate motives and explanations, rather than solutions, to the crimes in his works. Cain thus departs from Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler by creating narratives that are marked by a total...
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Crime, Sex, and Paranoia in Post-War Hardboiled Paperbacks

Jaber, Maysaa Husam

Pages: 105 –112

[When the pulps started to decline in the late 1940s, paperback books soon became the new format for post-war crime narratives. The soft-cover cheap paperback books revolutionized the genre of crime fiction and recreated a new space to disseminate crime stories that were the product of the...
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The Duality of David Goodis’s Criminal Femmes Fatales

Jaber, Maysaa Husam

Pages: 113 –128

[If Dashiell Hammett writes about the underworld of crime and chaos, David Goodis delves into the dark psyche of people on the margins, fallen heroes, and dangerous women. Goodis’s world is one in which his characters are doomed to fail, as they struggle with fear, paranoia, and hopelessness....
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Mickey Spillane’s Criminal Femmes Fatales and the Cold War Vendetta

Jaber, Maysaa Husam

Pages: 129 –156

[Mickey Spillane represents the extremes that characterized the post-war period. A right-wing writer, Spillane raised the anxieties of the Cold War to a new level. Unlike Goodis’s work, which presents paranoia of an unnamed source, and where characters are destined to fail, Spillane’s fiction...
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Conclusion

Jaber, Maysaa Husam

Pages: 157 –162

[This passage from James M. Cain’s The Postman Always Rings Twice is emblematic of the iconic image of the femme fatale: the dangerous siren whose sexual wiles open up the doors of Hell for the male character. Cain’s description of his female characters is often read as characteristic of the...

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