Hollywood’s Detectives
Crime Series in the 1930s and 1940s from the Whodunnit to Hard-boiled Noir
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Fran Mason
Cultural and Media Studies
American Cinema and TV
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Englishness and America: Basil Rathbone’s Sherlock Holmes
The ‘Sherlock Holmes’ series of films, originally produced by Twentieth Century Fox for two period versions in 1939 (both released as headlining movies), and then by Universal, after the series was revived and...
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The Rise of the Hard-boiled Detective
Although the hard-boiled style has been regarded as a dominant mode of the detective film in Hollywood in the 1940s, as Steve Neale describes (2000: 72), the number of hard-boiled films in this period that act...
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Exploring Detective Films in the 1930s and 1940s: Genre, Society and Hollywood
Hollywood’s version of the whodunnit in the 1930s and 1940s was not always of the classical style associated with the progenitors of the literary detective genre (Poe and Conan Doyle) or the writers of Golden ...
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Between Law and Crime: The Chivalric ‘Criminal’ Detective
An important strand within Hollywood crime series of the 1930s and 1940s focuses on the figure of the criminal detective whose roots are less in the classical detective mode than in the strain of criminal-cent...
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Ordering the World: The Uncompromising Logic of Charlie Chan and Mr Moto
Detective series involving Asian detectives were very popular in Hollywood in the 1930s and 1940s and, indeed, the most prolific of the Hollywood detective crime series in this period was the ‘Charlie Chan’ se...
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Conclusion: Noir Detectives, Rogue Cops, Undercover Men and Police Procedurals
The crime series persisted into the late 1940s, but the detective crime genre in this period, and into the 1950s, became increasingly fractured, as if the comforting formal style of the mystery series could no...
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‘Such Lovely Friends’: Class and Crime in ‘The Thin Man’ Series
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc.’s (MGM) ‘The Thin Man’ films are unusual among the detective crime series of the 1930s and 1940s because they maintained their A-Movie status as main features throughout their run. Oth...
