The street was mine
white masculinity in hardboiled fiction and film noir
1st ed.
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Author
Publication
2002 - Palgrave Macmillan, New York, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
61,500 words, Guess
Page Count
246 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL3568322M
- ISBN-100312294816
- OCLC Control Number49699066
- Library of Congress Control Number2002068408
- LibraryThing8949453
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- Goodreads52409
Classifications
- DDC813/.087209321732
- LCCPS374.D4 A23 2002
Description
"This book considers a recurrent figure in American literature: the solitary white man moving through urban space. The descendent of nineteenth-century frontier and western heroes, the figure reemerges in 1930s-50s America as the "tough guy." The Street Was Mine looks at the tough guy in the works of hardboiled novelists Raymond Chandler (The Big Sleep) and James M. Cain (Double Indemnity) and their popular film noir adaptations. Focusing on the way the tough guy negotiates racial and gender "otherness," this study argues that he embodies the promise of an impervious white masculinity amidst the turmoil of the Depression through the beginnings of the Cold War. The book concludes with an analysis of Chester Himes, whose Harlem crime novels (For Love of Imabelle) unleash a ferocious revisionary critique of the tough guy tradition."--BOOK JACKET.
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