{"product_id":"thrillers-chillers-and-killers-radio-and-film-noir-paperback-softback-9781978836389","title":"Thrillers, Chillers, and Killers; Radio and Film Noir (Paperback \/ softback) 9781978836389","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThrillers, Chillers, and Killers\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eRadio and Film Noir\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eFrank Krutnik (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781978836389\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 13 May 2025\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e286 pages, 23 B-W Images\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.6 x 2 cm, 0.426 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"A fascinating and thoroughly engaging book that successfully explores the neglected field of radio drama and its close relationship with cinema. Krutnik's excellent scholarship widens our knowledge of a thrilling era of popular culture, finding a dynamic correlation between the screen and the airwaves.\" - Richard Hand (author of Terror on the Air!: Horror Radio in America, 1931–1952) \"In this incredibly detailed book, Krutnik has thrillingly reimagined the ecosystem of noir by resituating it among the key radio programs through which it reached the public. It models a compelling new approach to the historical study of media interplay.\" - Neil Verma (author of Theater of the Mind: Imagination, Aesthetics, and American Radio Drama) \"Krutnik elegantly synthesizes his meticulous research on the noir mediascape, offering a new and compelling account of the transmedial currency of the noir mystery story across page, screen, and airwaves in American culture.\" - Helen Hanson (author of Hollywood Heroines: Women in Film Noir and the Female Gothic Film)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eFilm noir is one of the most exciting and most debated products of studio-era Hollywood, but did you know that American radio broadcast many programs in the noir vein through the 1940s and 1950s? These included adaptations of such well-known films as \u003ci\u003eThe Maltese Falcon\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMurder, My Sweet\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eDouble Indemnity\u003c\/i\u003e, detective series devoted to the adventures of private eyes Philip Marlowe and Sam Spade, and the spine-tingling anthology programs \u003ci\u003eLights Out\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSuspense\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003ci\u003eThrillers, Chillers, and Killers\u003c\/i\u003e is the first book to explore in detail noir storytelling on the two media, arguing that radio’s noir dramas played an important role as a counterpart to, influence on, or a spin-off from the noir films. Besides shedding new light on long-neglected radio dramas, and a medium that was cinema’s major rival, this scrupulously researched yet accessible study also uses these programs to challenge conventional understandings of the much-debated topic of noir.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction : Radio and Film Noir    \u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1: Noir Movies on the Radio\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2: Strange Romance - Laura, Film Noir, and Radio Drama \u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3: Seriality and the Radio Detective\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4: The Transmedial Seriality of Michael Shayne, #1 - From Book to Film \u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5: The Transmedial Seriality of Michael Shayne, #2 - Radio Drama\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 6: Not for the Timid Soul - The Weird Mysteries of Lights Out\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 7: Radio’\u003cbr\u003es Outstanding Theatre of Thrills \u003cbr\u003e Chapter 8: Noir Anguish: Cornell Woolrich and Suspense \u003cbr\u003e Coda: Radio\/Noir \u003cbr\u003e Appendix: Radio Adaptations of Noir Films \u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Radio and Film Noir 1\u003cbr\u003e 1 Noir Movies on the Radio 23\u003cbr\u003e 2 Strange Romance: Laura, Film Noir, and Radio Drama 47\u003cbr\u003e 3 Seriality and the Radio Detective 77\u003cbr\u003e 4 The Transmedial Seriality of Michael Shayne, #1:\u003cbr\u003e From Book to Film 89\u003cbr\u003e 5 The Transmedial Seriality of Michael Shayne, #2:\u003cbr\u003e Radio Drama 100\u003cbr\u003e 6 Not for the Timid Soul: The Weird Mysteries of Lights Out 126\u003cbr\u003e 7 Radio’\u003cbr\u003es Outstanding Theatre of Thrills 145\u003cbr\u003e 8 Noir Anguish: Cornell Woolrich and Suspense 173\u003cbr\u003e Coda: Radio\/Noir 199\u003cbr\u003e Appendix: Radio Adaptations of Noir Films 203\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e 221\u003cbr\u003e Notes 223\u003cbr\u003e Index 000\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Rutgers University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52735373082904,"sku":"9781978836389","price":26.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/thrillers-chillers-and-killers-radio-and-film-noir-paperback-softback-9781978836389","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}