"Characters and characteristics in motion pictures Fiction." . . . . . . "Noir fiction" . "Electronic books"@en . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "Noah Cross, Norma Desmond, Norman Bates, Harry Lime? these are a few of nearly a hundred names that inhabit the mind of the narrator as he starts to compose short biographies of some of the most famous characters in the history of film noir. He sketches in whole lives, lives as intense as the dreams put up on the screen. Then these characters start to meet each other outside the films as if they were real people with real needs and passions. The book is becoming a novel. The names and faces are familiar to us - Jake Gittes from Chinatown, Laura Hunt and Waldo Lydecker from Laura Rick and."@en . . . "Fiction" . "Fiction"@en . "Sospechosos" . . "Sospechosos"@es . "Suspects"@en . "Suspects" . . . . "Film noir Fiction." . . "Motion pictures." . . "Characters and characteristics in motion pictures." . . "Film noir." . . "LITERARY CRITICISM European English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh." . . "Motion pictures Fiction." . . . .