Hollywood's Detectives

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-viii

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2. Exploring Detective Films in the 1930s and 1940s: Genre, Society and Hollywood

   • Fran Mason

   Pages 1-27

3. ‘Such Lovely Friends’: Class and Crime in ‘The Thin Man’ Series

   • Fran Mason

   Pages 28-50

4. Between Law and Crime: The Chivalric ‘Criminal’ Detective

   • Fran Mason

   Pages 51-78

5. Englishness and America: Basil Rathbone’s Sherlock Holmes

   • Fran Mason

   Pages 79-105

6. Ordering the World: The Uncompromising Logic of Charlie Chan and Mr Moto

   • Fran Mason

   Pages 106-130

7. The Rise of the Hard-boiled Detective

   • Fran Mason

   Pages 131-156

8. Conclusion: Noir Detectives, Rogue Cops, Undercover Men and Police Procedurals

   • Fran Mason

   Pages 157-170

9. Back Matter

   Pages 171-187

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The study of Hollywood detectives has often overlooked the B-Movie mystery series in favour of hard-boiled film. Hollywood's Detectives redresses this oversight by examining key detective series of the 1930s and 1940s to explore their contributions to the detective genre.

• America
• bibliography
• English
• film
• genre
• Hollywood
• logic
• society

• Film Studies and American Studies, University of Winchester, UK

  Fran Mason

FRAN MASON Lecturer in Film and American Studies at the University of Winchester, UK, where he teaches in Film Studies and American Studies. He teaches and researches in film and culture with particular interests in Classical Hollywood Cinema, Crime Films and Postmodernism, and is currently researching Assassin Films and representations of the city on film.

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