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

by Megan Abbott

Book Overview

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 re-emerges in 1930-50s America as the 'tough guy'. The Street Was Mine looks to 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312294816
• ISBN13: 9780312294816
• Release Date: November 2002
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 246 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.7"