A selective bibliography of open access articles on James M. Cain, favoring signed articles by recognized scholars, articles published in reviewed sources, and web sites that adhere to the Modern Language Association Guidelines for Authors of Web Pages
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Biesen, Sheri Chinen. "Raising Cain with the censors, again: The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)." Literature Film Quarterly, 2000
Bolton, Zoe. "Entertainment and Dystopia: Film Noir, Melodrama and Mildred Pierce," at crimeculture.com, Spring 2005
Forter, Gregory. "Double Cain." Novel: A Forum on Fiction, Spring 1996
Westcombe, Roger. "The Road to Double Indemnity." Crimeculture.com, Spring, 2005
Westcombe, Roger. "'Lipstick Killers' - Viewing The Postman Twice." At crimeculture.com, Autumn 2004
Westcombe, Roger. "The Road to Double Indemnity." Crimeculture.com, Spring, 2005
Westcombe, Roger. "'Lipstick Killers' - Viewing The Postman Twice." At crimeculture.com, Autumn 2004
A biographical introduction to James M. Cain from Books and Writers, Kuusankoski Public Library, Finland
"Hardboiled Maryland." An electronic exhibit on the works of James M. Cain and other hard-boiled fiction writers, at the Univ. of Maryland
Berger, Roger A. '"The Black Dick': race, sexuality, and discourse in the L.A. novels of Walter Mosley" [African American detective novels] African American Review, Summer, 1997
Breu, Christopher. A review of Hard-Boiled Masculinities (Univ. of Minnesota Press, 2005). Reviewed by Justin Cober-Lake in Pop Matters. Publisher's blub for Hard-Boiled Masculinities
Breen, Jon L. "The Ellery Queen mystery: why is the corpus no longer alive?" Weekly Standard, Oct 10, 2005 (removed)
Catano, James V. "Detecting change: Gender and ethnicity in the detective novel." Novel: A Forum on Fiction, Summer 2000
Cawelti, John. Publisher's blurb for Adventure, Mystery, and Romance: Formula Stories as Art and Popular Culture (Univ. of Chicago, 1976)
Chandler, Raymond. "The Simple Act of Murder." The Atlantic Monthly, Nov. 1945
Demko, George. "Landscapes of Crime." An attractive web site on the geographical settings of mysteries, includes studies of international settings, from a Dartmouth professor
Entin, Joseph. "A new deal for thirties literature." A review of Michael Szalay, New Deal Modernism: American Literature and the Invention of the Welfare State (Duke Univ. Press, 2000); Sean Mccann, Gumshoe America: Hard-Boiled Crime Fiction and the Rise and Fall of New Deal Liberalism (Duke Univ. Press, 2000); and EM Smith, Hard-Boiled: Working-Class Readers and Pulp Magazines (Temple Univ. Press, 2000), in Novel: A Forum on Fiction, Fall 2000
Forter, Gregory. Criminal pleasures, pleasurable crime - pleasures of reading detective stories. "I liked somebody being dead." Style, Fall, 1995
Fister, Barbara. "Copycat Crimes: Crime Fiction and the Marketplace of Anxieties." [draft of an article that appeared in Clues: A Journal of Detection 23.3 (Spring 2005): 43-56.]Gray, Russel W. "Hard-boiled black easy: genre conventions in A Red Death." [on Walter Mosley] African American Review, Fall, 2004
Hopler, Jay. "Watching the detectives: reading dime novels and hard-boiled detective stories in context." Journal of Social History, Winter, 2002
Horsley, Lee. Extract from The Noir Thriller (Palgrave, 2001)
Lehman, David. "The Mysterious Romance of Murder: The enduring highbrow fascination with detective stories." In Boston Review, Feb/March 2000
Leitch, Thomas. "Twelve fallacies in contemporary adaptation theory." Criticism, Spring, 2003
Paradis, Kenneth. "Warshawski's Situation: Beauvoirean Feminism and the Hard-Boiled Detective." First page of essay only. In South Central Review, Vol. 18, No. 3/4
Porter, Dennis. Review of The Pursuit of Crime: Art and Ideology in Detective Fiction. (Yale Univ. Press, 1981). Reviewed in Journal of European Studies, by H.M. Klein 12 (47): 224
Priestman, Martin, ed. blurb for The Cambridge Companion to Crime Fiction
Pronzini, Bill and Jack Adrian, eds. A short review of Hard-Boiled: An Anthology of American Crime Stories (Oxford Univ. Press), in Studies in Short Fiction, Fall, 1997, reviewed by Douglas Levin
Silver, Alain. "Kiss Me Deadly: Evidence of a Style," [Mickey Spillane film adaptation] from Film Noir Reader (1996)
Smith, Johanna M. "Hard-Boiled Detective Fiction: Gendering the Canon," first page of essay only. Pacific Coast Philology, Vol. 26, No. 1/2 (Jul., 1991), pp. 78-84
Todorov, Tzvetan. Todorov's influential structuralist analysis of the whodunit and the thriller in The Poetics of Prose (Cornell Univ. Press, 1977) is briefly summarized. From the Victorian Web
Willett, Ralph. "Hard-Boiled Detective Fiction," covers major authors, women detectives, and settings including Harlem, Los Angeles, Miami, urban and desert landscapes. From the British Assoc. of American Studies, BAAS Pamphlet No. 23 (1992)
Introduction to Ross MacDonald from Books and Writers, Kuusankoski Public Library, Finland
Horsley, Lee and Katharine. "Crime Culture," an academic web site on crime fiction, crime film, and true crime. Includes original articles, syllabi, recommended secondary bibliography for teaching crime fiction, and more
Marling, William. "Hard-boiled detective fiction," contains essays by Dr. Marling on early writers of hard-boiled fiction, classic writers, and later writers in this style, an extensive secondary bibliography, and more
Black Mask Magazine "the classic hard-boiled pulp crime mag." Slickly produced and informative, includes pages on the history of the genre and some early tales from Black Mask
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