Sentences with phrase «private eye genre»
According to an official description, Too Late «takes the spine of the classic private eye genre and tears it to pieces, weaving it back together into a tapestry of southern California and the menagerie of eccentric personalities and lost souls who inhabit it.»
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He wanted to write something for John Hawkes, explore the private eye genre and experiment with capturing long takes on 35 mm.
Not exact matches
But Dave Kehr's Reader capsule, written some time later, is probably more judicious: «Not just another genre rehash (cf Farewell, My Lovely; The Long Goodbye; Gumshoe), but a genuinely ingratiating private - eye update with Art Carney as a middle - aged Marlowe trying to find out who killed his partner.
Most of the headlines about social media usually involve celebrities and their inappropriate or bizarre public or private behavior, but the emergent genre of mass communications has caught the eye of major corporations, and is resulting in reallocation of marketing resources.
The first volumes in the series lean toward the detective side of the blend, the later ones more to the magical, but this series is clearly the gold standard for urban fantasy as seen through the conventions of the private - eye genre.
A star - studded international group of authors has come together in crime writing harmony to provide a killer cocktail for noir fans; salutary tales of gangster etiquette and pitfalls, clever takes on the locked - room genre, chilling wrong - footers from the deceptively peaceful suburbs, intriguing accounts of tables being turned on hapless private eyes, delicious slices of jet black nordic noir, culminating in a stunning example of bleak amorality from crime writing doyenne Maj Sjowall.
As an artist, she engages in genre - bending performance, installation, writing creative non-fiction, and working as an amateur private eye.