The Blond Satan and the White Knight in Temptation: Sex and Sexuality in The Maltese Falcon and The Big Sleep

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Authors	PITUKOVÁ Veronika
Year of publication	2013
Type	Conference abstract
MU Faculty or unit	Faculty of Arts
Citation
Description	The article discusses the theme of sex and sexuality presented in American hard-boiled detective fiction and its subsequent transformation to the screen in form of film noir of the 1940s. The works in focus are novels The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett and The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler and their subsequent film noir adaptations – The Maltese Falcon (1941) and The Big Sleep (1946).
Related projects:	Nové směry v anglofonním jazykovědném a literárním výzkumu