American Noir Course Blog

The main character in Queenpin is the perfect example of a "good girl gone bad". I think it's pretty safe to say that everyo...

I noticed while flipping through Queenpin  today that Abbott borrows my favorite quote from Dashiell Hammett's The Thin Man  in her dedi...

For some post-semester reading I checked Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep  out of the library and found this little gem in the beginning...

I just wanted to make a post commenting on some random thoughts I have on Cotton Comes to Harlem . First off, holy Hard-boiled!  I mean if...

In all of the pieces of literature and movies we have examined this semester (with the exception of Queenpin) the female characters and femm...

I was reviewing a couple chapters in the The Talented Mr. Ripley when I noticed a trend in his behavior. When Tom's facades and costumes...

When I began reading Queenpin, I thought to myself, "the author is going to beat the hell out of the idea that a woman will do this....