Title: Pulp Culture: Hardboiled Fiction and the Cold War
Abstract:This text pursues the lives and work of crime writers who approached the genre at street level. Writers examined include David Goodis, Chester Himes, Jim Thompson, Dorothy B. Hughes, Raymond Chandler,...This text pursues the lives and work of crime writers who approached the genre at street level. Writers examined include David Goodis, Chester Himes, Jim Thompson, Dorothy B. Hughes, Raymond Chandler, Mickey Spillane, Ross MacDonald, Horace McCoy and Charles Williams. The book examines the politics of paranoia, private detection and criminality, the role of women in a male dominated genre and why the early `60s marked the end of classic hardboiled fiction. It also considers the influence of the genre on contemporary crime writers and film-makers.Read More
Publication Year: 1996
Publication Date: 1996-04-01
Language: en
Type: book
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