The Street Was Mine [electronic resource] : White Masculinity in Hardboiled Fiction and Film Noir / by M. Abbott.
Erişim Adresi
ISBN
9781403970015
Dil Kodu
İngilizce
Yer Numarası
DK/32560
Yazar
Basım Bildirimi
1st ed. 2002.
Yayın Bilgisi
New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002.
Fiziksel Niteleme
256 p. online resource.
Özet, vb.
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 re-emerges in 1930-50s America as the 'tough guy'. The Street Was Mine looks to 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 he negotiates racial and gender 'otherness', this study argues that the tough guy embodies the promise of an impervious white masculinity amidst the turmoil of the Depression through the beginnings of the Cold War, closing with an analysis of Chester Himes, whose Harlem crime novels ( For Love of Imabelle ) unleash a ferocious revisionary critique of the tough guy tradition.
Konu
Literature __ Philosophy.
Culture __ Study and teaching.
America __ Literatures.
Fiction.
Literature, Modern __ 20th century.
Motion pictures __ History.
Literary Theory.
Cultural Theory.
North American Literature.
Fiction Literature.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
Film and TV History.
Culture __ Study and teaching.
America __ Literatures.
Fiction.
Literature, Modern __ 20th century.
Motion pictures __ History.
Literary Theory.
Cultural Theory.
North American Literature.
Fiction Literature.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
Film and TV History.
Kurum Adı
