White Masculinity and Urban Space in Hardboiled Fiction and Film Noir
Abbott, Megan E.
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Hardcover
256 pages
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Published: 2002
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN / EAN: 0312294816
This 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 "tough guy." "The Street Was Mi
