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The Street Was Mine 

White Masculinity in Hardboiled Fiction and Film Noir 

by

Megan Abbott

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

(2002)
A non fiction book by

Megan Abbott

 

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 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 way he negotiates racial and gender 'otherness,' this study argues that the tough guy 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.
 
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November 2002 : Hardback
Cover of ISBN: 0312294816Title: The Street Was Mine: White Masculinity in Hardboiled Fiction and Film Noir
Author(s): Megan E. Abbott
ISBN: 0-312-29481-6 / 978-0-312-29481-6 (USA edition)
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
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Paperback Editions

2002 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: B000OTHKN2Title: The Street Was Mine: White Masculinity in Hardboiled Fiction and Film Noir
Author(s): Megan E. Abbott
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
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