David Goodis’s Noir Fiction: The American Dream’s Paralysis by Robert Lance Snyder

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Unreal Cities: the Veterans’ Homecoming and the Fate of Postwar Noir by Benoît Tadié

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“The journalistic licence of it all”: Crime, Fiction, and Journalism in David Peace’s Nineteen Seventy Four by Maximiliano Jiménez

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Léo Malet ou le roman noir américain made in France by Crystel Pinçonnat

“…Though he owes his fame to the character of Nestor Burma that he invented in 1943, his previous production, which served as a testing ground to develop his Parisian version of noir fiction, is not as well-known. During the German Occupation of France, the publisher Georges Ventillard, taking advantage of the craze for noir fiction and the banning of Anglo-American literature in France, launched the “Minuit” series. …”
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Noir sensibility and the Mystical East in Amir Hafizi’s “The Unbeliever” of Amir Muhammad’s KL Noir: Red by Ririn Kurnia Trisnawati

“…Both its noir sensibility and postcolonial experiences constitute the darkness and alienation which are commonly associated with noir fiction. Consequently, this paper looks into noir sensibility or noir parameters that construct Hafizi’s “The Unbeliever” and, simultaneously, the inclusion of subversion of the West and East as a fragment of the postcolonial experiences that can also function as noir sensibility. …”
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