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This paper provides an analysis of the adaptation of literary texts into film, including Dashiell Hammett's "The Maltese Falcon", adapted for film by director John Huston, and Alberto Moravia's "Le M'epris", adapted for film by director Jean-Luc Godard. The paper examines how Hammett's detective fiction genre is similar to the film noir genre in the film of the same name and how Moravia's psychological novel is similar to French New Wave Cinema illustrated in Godard's film "Contempt."

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"Both Dashiell Hammett's hardboiled detective novel, "The Maltese Falcon", and Alberto Moravia's psychological novel about the disintegration of a marital relationship, "Contempt" a.k.a. "A Ghost at Noon" were adapted into feature films. Hammett's novel and its protagonist, Sam Spade, were adapted by director John Huston in the film, "The Maltese Falcon", while Jean-Luc Godard adapted Moravia's novel for the screen in the film "Contempt". In adapting one of the most popular novels of all time,..."

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