Kiss me deadly United Artists ; Victor Saville present Mickey Spillane's ; screenplay by A.I. Bezzerides ; produced and directed by Robert Aldrich.

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Dames in the driver's seat : rereading film noir / Jans B. Wager. by Wager, Jans B., 1958-

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Film noir reader / edited by Alain Silver and James Ursini.

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Maximum movies--pulp fictions : film culture and the worlds of Samuel Fuller, Mickey Spillane, and Jim Thompson / Peter Stanfield. by Stanfield, Peter, 1958-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : yours till the boys come home -- Position papers : in defense of pulp movies -- A genealogy of pulp : Black mask to Mickey Spillane -- A world of small insanities : the critical reception of Kiss me deadly -- American primitive : Samuel Fuller's pulp politics -- Authenticating pulp : Jim Thompson adaptations and neo-noir -- Conclusion : hiding out in cinemas.…”
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Maximum movies--pulp fictions : film culture and the worlds of Samuel Fuller, Mickey Spillane, and Jim Thompson / Peter Stanfield. by Stanfield, Peter, 1958-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : yours till the boys come home -- Position papers : in defense of pulp movies -- A genealogy of pulp : Black mask to Mickey Spillane -- A world of small insanities : the critical reception of Kiss me deadly -- American primitive : Samuel Fuller's pulp politics -- Authenticating pulp : Jim Thompson adaptations and neo-noir -- Conclusion : hiding out in cinemas.…”
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Ashkan, The Charmed Ring and Other Stories / written and directed by Shahram Mokri.

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The red and the black : American film noir in the 1950s / Robert Miklitsch. by Miklitsch, Robert, 1953-

Table of Contents: “….: Fatality, Sexuality, Radioactivity; 5 "Black Film" and the Bomb: Spies and "Cowboys," Red Professors and Thieves; The Thief: Alien Nation; The Atomic City: Atomic Cowboys and Un-American Indians; Shack Out on 101: Bikinis, Bombshells, and the (Red) Planet of the Apes; City of Fear: Cobalt-60; 6 Kiss Me Deadly: The X Factor, or The "Great Whatsit"; Part Three: New Media and Technologies; 7 Noir en couleur: Color and Widescreen; Black Widow: Red Herring.…”
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Shot/Countershot : Film Tradition and Women's Cinema. by Fischer, Lucy

Table of Contents: “…The Lives of Performers: The Actress as Signifier ; 4. Kiss Me Deadly: Heterosexual Romance ; 5. Shall We Dance? …”
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Ronald Reagan, the Movie and Other Episodes in Political Demonology. by Rogin, Michael Paul

Table of Contents: “…Griffith's The Birth of a Nation; 8. Kiss Me Deadly: Communism, Motherhood, and Cold War Movies; 9. …”
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Murder made in Italy : homicide, media, and contemporary Italian culture / Ellen Nerenberg. by Nerenberg, Ellen Victoria, 1962-

Table of Contents: “…The yellow and the black: Cogne; or, crime of the century -- Spectacular grief and public mourning -- Unspeakable crimes: children as witnesses, victims, and perpetrators -- Epilogue: kiss me deadly.…”
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Film Noir by Luhr, William

Table of Contents: “…Confidential -- Chapter 6: Kiss Me Deadly -- Mike Hammer and His Corrupt World -- "Pulp" Atmosphere and Censorship Problems -- Formal Strategies -- Atomic Age Consumerism and Paranoia -- Nuclear Fission, Science Fiction, Apocalypse, and Resurrection -- Critical Reputation -- Chapter 7: The Long Goodbye -- The Film -- Hostile Initial Reception -- Marlowe -- Leigh Brackett, Chandler, Generic Change, and Marlowe -- Formal Strategies…”
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Hiroshima-75 : nuclear issues in global contexts / Aya Fujiwara ; David. R. Marples (eds.).

Table of Contents: “…Atomic Bombs and Cultural Representation in the World -- JAPAN'S COLLECTIVE MEMORY OF HIROSHIMA SEEN THROUGH THE EYES OF A CHILD: THE NATIONAL AND GLOBAL IMPACT OF "BAREFOOT GEN" -- NUCLEAR NOIR: KISS ME DEADLY AND POSTWAR ANXIETY IN AMERICA -- "HIROSHIMA" IN FRANCE: FORGETTING "HIROSHIMA" TO ACCEPT FRENCH ULTRA-MODERNITY AND ITS NUCLEAR POLICIES. -- 4. …”
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Spar : poems / by Karen Volkman. by Volkman, Karen

Table of Contents: “…Create Desire -- I won't go in today -- Shrewd star -- The problem of these -- ''Why are you here'' -- If it be event -- Meet me two years -- More feet on more -- May -- What, I said -- There comes a time -- What we know -- Kiss Me Deadly -- O verb, o void -- Lady of the lake -- August could ask -- Yellow drapes -- Although the paths -- There was a stare -- And when the nights -- It could be a bird -- Poem (My hayseed harlequin) -- Or would triumph -- Octaves, ovations -- The first greeting -- I was watching -- Now I promise -- When kiss spells -- Betrayal -- He deciphers -- Tender feather -- Yes the red flower -- A story left -- I never wish to -- Dear noon -- Shadow of a Doubt -- The rain falls -- Winter Abstract -- A light says why -- O coronet -- The end of the day -- Implorers, connivers -- What I meet of -- And the urge is less -- Poem (Black corners of winter) -- They make it go -- I have a friend -- To take, to make -- Do not think, beloved -- Lost he says -- Heroic Roses -- No noise subtracts -- I believe there is -- We did things.…”
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Street with no name : a history of the classic American film noir / Andrew Dickos. by Dickos, Andrew, 1952-

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New directions in American reception study / edited by Philip Goldstein and James L. Machor.

Table of Contents: “…complaining about the newspaper in early twentieth-century New York / David Paul Nord -- Sentiment without tears: Uncle Tom's cabin as history in the 1890s / Barbara Hochman -- Kiss me deadly: cold war threats from Spillane to Aldrich, New York to Los Angeles, and the mafia to the H-bomb / Janet Staiger -- Textual poaching or gamekeeping? …”
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Not to be missed : fifty-four favorites from a lifetime of film / Kenneth Turan. by Turan, Kenneth

Table of Contents: “…All about Eve (1950) ; The asphalt jungle (1950) ; Sunset Boulevard (1950) ; Casque d'or (1952) ; The importance of being Earnest (1952) ; Singin' in the rain (1952) ; The earrings of Madame De ... (1953) ; Seven samurai (1954) ; Kiss me deadly (1955) ; Seven men from now (1956) ; Sweet smell of success (1957) ; Vertigo (1958) -- The Sixties. …”
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The films in my life. by Truffaut, François

Table of Contents: “…The BirdsFrenzy; The Generation of the Talkies: The Americans; Robert Aldrich; Kiss Me Deadly; Vera Cruz; The Big Knife; William Beaudine; The Feathered Serpent; Budd Boetticher; The Killer Is Loose; George Cukor; It Should Happen to You; Samuel Fuller; Verboten; Elia Kazan; Baby​ Doll; A Face in the Crowd; Stanley Kubrick; Paths of Glory; Charles Laughton; The Night of the Hunter; Mervyn LeRoy; The Bad Seed; Anatole litvak; Anastasia; Joshua Logan; Picnic; Sidney Lumet; Twelve Angry Men; Joseph Mankiewicz; The Barefoot Contessa; Anthony Mann; Men in War; Robert Mulligan; Fear Strikes Out…”
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L.A. noir : the city as character / Alain Silver & James Ursini ; additional photography, Elizabeth Ward. by Silver, Alain, 1947-

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