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The Street Was Mine. White Masculinity in Hardboiled Fiction and Film Noir.
Megan E. Abbott
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Description for The Street Was Mine. White Masculinity in Hardboiled Fiction and Film Noir.
Paperback. Num Pages: 255 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APF; DSA; DSBH; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 334.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
255
Condition
New
Number of Pages
246
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781349387878
SKU
V9781349387878
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About Megan E. Abbott
MEGAN ABBOTT is Assistant Professor of English at State University of New York-Oswego. She received her Ph.D. in English and American Literature from New York University in 2000.
Reviews for The Street Was Mine. White Masculinity in Hardboiled Fiction and Film Noir.
'Although more revisionist than feminist, this book does damage to white boys.' - A. Hirsch, Choice