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- Pages
- 215
- Publication Date
- 2000-05-15
- ISBN
- 9781566397698
- Book Title
- Hard-Boiled
- Item Length
- 9 in
- Publisher
- Temple University Press
- Publication Year
- 2000
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 0.7 in
- Genre
- Literary Criticism, Language Arts & Disciplines
- Topic
- Publishing, Drama, Mystery & Detective, General, American / General, Books & Reading
- Item Width
- 6 in
- Item Weight
- 14.3 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 215 Pages
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In the 1920s a distinctively American detective fiction emerged from the pages of pulp magazines. The "hard-boiled" stories published in Black Mask, Dime Detective, Detective Fiction Weekly, and Clues featured a new kind of hero and soon challenged the popularity of the British mysteries that held readers in thrall on both sides of the Atlantic. In Hard-Boiled Erin A. Smith examines the culture that produced and supported this form of detective story through the 1940s. Relying on pulp magazine advertising, the memoirs of writers and publishers, Depression-era studies of adult reading habits, social and labor history, Smith offers an innovative account of how these popular stories were generated and read. She shows that although the work of pulp fiction authors like Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, and Erle Stanley Gardner have become "classics" of popular culture, the hard-boiled genre was dominated by hack writers paid by the word, not self-styled artists. Pulp magazine editors and writers emphasized a gritty realism in the new genre. Unlike the highly rational and respectable British protagonists (Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot, for instance), tough-talking American private eyes relied as much on their fists as their brains as they made their way through tangled plotlines.Casting working-class readers of pulp fiction as "poachers," Smith argues that they understood these stories as parables about Taylorism, work, and manhood; as guides to navigating consumer culture; as sites for managing anxieties about working women. Engaged in re-creating white, male privilege for the modern, heterosocial world, pulp detective fiction shaped readers into consumers by selling them what they wanted to hear - stories about manly artisan-heroes who resisted encroaching commodity culture and the female consumers who came with it. Commenting on the genre's staying power, Smith considers contemporary detective fiction by women, minority, and gay and lesbian writers.
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Publisher
Temple University Press
ISBN-10
1566397693
ISBN-13
9781566397698
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1674257
Product Key Features
Book Title
Hard-Boiled
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Publishing, Drama, Mystery & Detective, General, American / General, Books & Reading
Publication Year
2000
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Literary Criticism, Language Arts & Disciplines
Number of Pages
215 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9 in
Item Height
0.7 in
Item Width
6 in
Item Weight
14.3 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Ps374.D4s65 2000
Reviews
"Picking up a classic 'hard-boiled' detective novel by Dashiell Hammet or Raymond Chandler--or even modern-day Sara Paretsky--is an entirely different experience after reading Smith's fascinating book. Now the pages of these novels and their close cousins, the pulp magazines, have become rich canvases for working out struggles over readers' class and consumer identities." --Lizabeth Cohen, Harvard University "Not until Erin Smith's innovative study have we had such a fully-grounded look at the imagined community of working-class fraternity, masculinity, and consumerism through which pulp audiences interpreted the 'fast-talking' heroes of hard-boiled detective fiction. A lively, engaging book that ranges from the linguistics to the sartorial dimensions of the genre, from labor to cultural capital, from advertising copy to literary theory." --Christopher P. Wilson, author of Cap Knowledge: Police Power and Cultural Narrative in Twentieth Century America "Hard-Boiled [is] a valuable contribution to the study of American literature between the wars." --Modern Fiction Studies
Table of Content
CONTENTS Acknowledgments Introduction PART I: Reconstructing Readers 1. The Hard-Boiled Writer and the Literary Marketplace 2. The Adman on the Shop Floor: Workers, Consumer Culture, and the Pulps PART II: Reading Hard-Boiled Fiction 3. Proletarian Plots 4. Dressed to Kill 5. Talking Tough 6. The Office Wife Afterword Notes Index
Copyright Date
2000
Lccn
00-023424
Dewey Decimal
813/.087209052
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