The Street Was Mine : White Masculinity in Hardboiled Fiction and Film Noir
Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2002
by
M. Abbott
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Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
1349387878
ISBN-13
9781349387878
Edition
Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2002
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint
Palgrave Macmillan
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Feb 6th, 2003
Print length
246 Pages
Product Classification:
North America (USA and Canada)Film theory & criticismFilm history, theory or criticismLiterature: history & criticismLiterature: history and criticismLiterary theoryLiterary studies: c 1900 to c 2000Literary studies: from c 1900 -FictionFiction & related itemsCultural studiesCultural studies
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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.
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