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Table of Contents: “…Ethics, heart, and violence in Miller's Crossing /…”
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Table of Contents: “…Early films: Roadhouse nights (1930), City streets (1931), and Mister Dynamite (1935) -- The Thin man (1934) -- After The thin man: from sequel to series Woman in the dark (1934) and Watch on the Rhine (1943) -- The Maltese falcon (1931), Satan met a lady (1936), and The Maltese falcon (1941) -- The glass key (1935 and 1942) -- Hammett in retrospect: Miller's crossing -- Conclusion: Dashiell Hammett and the movies.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Blood Simple: 'It's the Same Old Song' -- Raising Arizona: A State of Mind -- Miller's Crossing: 'A Handsome Movie about Men in Hats' -- Barton Fink: 'For the Common Man' -- The Hudsucker Proxy: A Comedy of Reinvention -- Fargo: In the Land of Tall Tales -- The Big Lebowski: 'The Dude Abides' -- O Brother Where Art Thou?…”
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Table of Contents: “…An introduction -- Out of nowhere -- Blood simple -- Raising Arizona -- Miller's crossing -- Interview : Michael Miller -- Barton Fink -- Hits and misses -- The hudsucker proxy -- Fargo -- Interview : The Zellner Brothers -- The Big Lebowski -- Interview : Lisa Walker -- Can't stop what's coming -- O brother, where are thou? …”

Table of Contents: “…: anarchic comedy in Raising Arizona, The ladykillers, and Burn after reading -- Joel and Ethan do Hammett and Chandler: Miller's crossing, The big Lebowski, and the hard-boiled tradition -- How the sausage gets made: inside the Hollywood film industry in Barton Fink and Hail, Caesar! …”

Table of Contents: “…Gough -- The Broadside ballad and the woman's voice / Sandra Clark -- "Weele have a wench shall be our poet": Samuel Rowlands' gossip pamphlets / Susan Gushee O'Malley -- The mat(t)er of death: the defense of Eve and the female ars moriendi / Patricia Phillippy -- "Hens should be served first": prioritizing maternal production in the early modern Pamphlet Debate / Naomi J. Miller -- Cross-dressed women and natural mothers: "boundary panic" in Hic Mulier / Rachel Trubowitz -- Monstrous births and the body politic: women's political writings and the strange and wonderful travails of mistris parliament and Mris. …”
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Table of Contents: “…The really big sleep : Jeffrey Lebowski as the second coming of Rip Van Winkle / Fred Ashe -- A once and future dude : The big Lebowski as medieval grail-quest / Andrew Rabin -- Dudespeak : or, how to bowl like a pornstar / Justus Nieland -- Metonymic hats and metaphoric tumbleweeds : noir literary aesthetics in Miller's Crossing and The big Lebowski / Christopher Raczkowski -- The dude and the new left / Stacy Thompson -- The big Lebowski and Paul de Man : historicizing irony and ironizing historicism / Joshua Kates -- Lebowski and the ends of postmodern American comedy / Matthew Biberman -- Found document : the stranger's commentary and a note on his method / Thomas B. …”
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Table of Contents: “…Matheus -- Prologue to a life / Dorothy West -- Sanctuary / Nella Larsen -- Door-stops / May Miller -- Cross crossings cautiously / Anita Scott Coleman -- Why Adam ate the apple / Mercedes Gilbert -- The needle's point / J. …”

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