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- catalog abstract ""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. 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.".
- catalog contributor b12676457.
- catalog created "2002.".
- catalog date "2002".
- catalog date "2002.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2002.".
- catalog 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.".
- catalog description "Ch. 1. Introduction -- Ch. 2. "I Can Feel Her": The White Male as Hysteric in James M. Cain and Raymond Chandler -- Ch. 3. "Another Soft-Voiced Big Man I Had Strangely Liked": Containing White Male Desire -- Ch. 4. The Woman in White: Race-ing and Erace-ing in Cain and Chandler -- Ch. 5. "Nothing You Can't Fix": Hardboiled Fiction's Hollywood Makeover -- Ch. 6. "The Strict Domain of Whitey": Chester Himes's Coup.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-238) and index.".
- catalog 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.".
- catalog extent "246 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0312294816".
- catalog issued "2002".
- catalog issued "2002.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Palgrave Macmillan,".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "813/.087209321732 21".
- catalog subject "City and town life in literature.".
- catalog subject "City and town life in motion pictures.".
- catalog subject "Detective and mystery films United States History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Detective and mystery stories, American History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Film noir United States History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Masculinity in literature.".
- catalog subject "Men in literature.".
- catalog subject "Men in motion pictures.".
- catalog subject "Men, White, in literature.".
- catalog subject "Noir fiction, American History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "PS374.D4 A23 2002".
- catalog subject "Private investigators in literature.".
- catalog subject "Race in literature.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Ch. 1. Introduction -- Ch. 2. "I Can Feel Her": The White Male as Hysteric in James M. Cain and Raymond Chandler -- Ch. 3. "Another Soft-Voiced Big Man I Had Strangely Liked": Containing White Male Desire -- Ch. 4. The Woman in White: Race-ing and Erace-ing in Cain and Chandler -- Ch. 5. "Nothing You Can't Fix": Hardboiled Fiction's Hollywood Makeover -- Ch. 6. "The Strict Domain of Whitey": Chester Himes's Coup.".
- catalog title "The street was mine : white masculinity in hardboiled fiction and film noir / Megan E. Abbott.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "text".