The Blond Satan and the White Knight in Temptation: Sex and Sexuality in The Maltese Falcon and The Big Sleep

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PITUKOVÁ Veronika

Year of publication 2013
Type Conference abstract
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Faculty of Arts

Citation
Description The article discusses the theme of sex and sexuality presented in American hard-boiled detective fiction and its subsequent transformation to the screen in form of film noir of the 1940s. The works in focus are novels The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett and The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler and their subsequent film noir adaptations – The Maltese Falcon (1941) and The Big Sleep (1946).
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