21st-Century Crime: Reviving the Classics

 

2010: the Biggest and Best Books of Pulp Fiction,
Mystery Stories and Film Noir

It's been a great year for books that give readers an overview of vintage crime fiction and film. Crimeculture's New Year's Day 2011 selection includes three of the best:

Penzler and Deutsch (ed and intro), The Black Lizard Big Book of Black Mask Stories

Gruesser (ed), A Century of Detection: Twenty Great Mystery Stories, 1841-1940

Silver, Ward, Ursini and Porfirio (eds), Film Noir: The Encyclopedia

 

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang and the Brett Halliday tradition of comic detective novels:  Lee Horsley on Hollywood and pulp traditions

Book to Film and Back: Reviving the Great Gangsters, Outlaws and Femmes Fatales:  Reviews of Armitage Trail's Scarface, Edward Anderson's Thieves Like Us and Geoffrey Homes's Build My Gallows High

Pulp Originals: the e-Publishing of Mid-Century American Crime Novels:  Reviews of Harry Whittington, James McKimmey and Day Keene    

Nightmare Alley: Arthur M. Fried on Spain Hernandez’s graphic adaptation

 

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nightmare alley
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