Monday, March 12, 2012

The Street Was Mine: White Masculinity in Hardboiled Fiction and Film Noir


divThis book considers a recurrent figure in American literature: the solitary white man moving through urban space. The descendent of 19th-century frontier and western heroes, the figure reemerges in 1930s-?€™50s America as the ?€œtough guy.?€ iThe Street Was Mine/i looks to the tough guy in the works of hardboiled novelists Raymond Chandler (iThe Big Sleep/i) and James M. Cain (iDouble Indemnity/i) and their popular ifilm noir/i adaptations. Focusing on the way he negotiates racial and gender ?€œotherness,?€ this study argues that the tough guy embodies th
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