Robert Aldrich’s Kiss Me Deadly (1955) appeared near the zenith of the film noir cycle (1941-1958), when the plots and motifs grew familiar and called for new treatments. In adapting Mickey Spillane’s 1952 novel using A.I. Bezzerides’ script, Aldrich offered a high-energy rendition of the private eye film with an atomic age theme, leaving critics like Paul Schrader to regard the film as a notable entry. In Kiss Me Deadly: The Great Whatsit of Noir, crime genre historian Woody Haut analyzes the unique mixture of noir elements and emerging concerns that left an imprint on crime cinema into the 21st century.
Author Biography
Woody Haut is a London-based journalist and author of Pulp Culture: Hardboiled Fiction and the Cold War; Neon Noir: Contemporary American Crime Fiction; and Heartbreak and Vine: The Fate of Hardboiled Writers in Hollywood. He is also the author of the novels Days of Smoke; Cry for a Nickel, Die for a Dime; and, most recently, Skin Flick.
SERIES
Crime Classics
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