The street was mine : white masculinity in hardboiled fiction and film noir
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Author
Published
New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2002.
Format
Book
Edition
1st ed.
ISBN
9781349387878, 1349387878, 0312294816, 9780312294816
Physical Desc
246 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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Published
New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2002.
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
ISBN
9781349387878, 1349387878, 0312294816, 9780312294816
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-238) and index.
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.
Description
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."--Jacket.
Subjects
LC Subjects
City and town life in literature.
City and town life in motion pictures.
Detective and mystery films -- United States -- History and criticism.
Detective and mystery stories, American -- History and criticism.
Film noir -- United States -- History and criticism.
Masculinity in literature.
Men in motion pictures.
Men, White, in literature.
Noir fiction, American -- History and criticism.
Private investigators in literature.
City and town life in motion pictures.
Detective and mystery films -- United States -- History and criticism.
Detective and mystery stories, American -- History and criticism.
Film noir -- United States -- History and criticism.
Masculinity in literature.
Men in motion pictures.
Men, White, in literature.
Noir fiction, American -- History and criticism.
Private investigators in literature.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Abbott, M. (2002). The street was mine: white masculinity in hardboiled fiction and film noir . Palgrave Macmillan.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Abbott, Megan, 1971-. 2002. The Street Was Mine: White Masculinity in Hardboiled Fiction and Film Noir. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Abbott, Megan, 1971-. The Street Was Mine: White Masculinity in Hardboiled Fiction and Film Noir New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Abbott, Megan. The Street Was Mine: White Masculinity in Hardboiled Fiction and Film Noir Palgrave Macmillan, 2002.
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