Dashiell Hammett

The literary giants of the era included F. Scott Fitzgerald, JRR Tolkien, John Steinbeck, and Margaret Mitchell. John Steinbeck was the champion of Depression-era literature. His masterpieces include The Grapes of Wrath and Of Mice and Men. His books tend to be about the poor, working class, an obvious reflection of the financial turmoil in the United States of the time. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1962. His emotional style was popular with his readers and it allowed him to…

modern world. These locomotives and steamships paved the way for the modern machine of the car. The automobile gained a reputation as the machine so that by 1929 it was already being used in literature. The novel The Red Harvest by Samuel Dashiell Hammett includes this line, “The machine that had been trailing us came into sight around a bend in the road..and unloaded its cargo of men and weapons.” (Barnhart 633) This is more relatable to modern slang. For example, when some people see a…

crime fiction, he asserts that nothing is ever as good as his reality themed works. He got into crime fiction since he has always enjoyed the hard boiled, detective fiction and mystery fiction from the likes of Agatha Christie, James M. Cain, Dashiell Hammett, and Raymond Chandler. Given his attachment to crime fiction since his youth, it was inevitable that he would gravitate toward the genre as an adult. With his debut mystery novel The Ballad of Rocky Ruiz attaining much commercial success…

In 1992, Billy Wilder’s 1944 film Double Indemnity was preserved by the Library of Congress for being “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.” It is clear that the film has had a major impact in cinema but it was created to protest Los Angeles but suffered many hurdles to complete. However, Double Indemnity would effectively jump start the noir movement and influence cinema to this day. When Double Indemnity was first played in theaters audiences and critics reacted in shock…

In Los Angeles, Private Investigator Philip Marlowe (Humphrey Bogart) takes on a new case for General Sternwood (Charles Waldron) in Los Angeles, a wealthy old gentleman seeking to stop a man named Arthur Gwynne Geiger (Theodore Von Eltz), who is blackmailing his youngest daughter, Carmen Sternwood (Martha Vickers). General Sternwood wants Marlowe to stop Geiger from extorting his family for money. But Marlowe has inadvertently stepped into several other mysteries involving he Sternwood family…

other privileges like the right to work. Most were left without jobs, while many were sentenced to jail for not having names of other communists to give up as evidence. Some of those well-known artists that were called before the committee were, “Dashiell Hammett, Waldo Salt, Lillian Hellman, Lena Horne, Paul Robeson, Elia Kazan, Arthur Miller, Aaron Copland, Leonard Bernstein, Charlie Chaplin and Group Theatre members Clifford Odets, Elia…