Pulp virilities and post-war American culture

Pulp virilities and post-war American culture / Arthur Redding.

This book interrogates the repertoire of masculine performance in popular crime fiction and cinema from the 1940s, 50s, and 60s. This critical survey of the back alleys of pulp culture reveals American masculinities to be unsettled, contentious, crisis-ridden, racially fraught, and sexually anxious....

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Main Author: Redding, Arthur F., 1964- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.
Series:Renewing the American narrative.
Subjects:
1900-1999
Detective and mystery stories, American > History and criticism.
Noir fiction, American > History and criticism.
American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
Detective and mystery films > United States > History and criticism.
Film noir > United States > History and criticism.
Masculinity in literature.
Masculinity in motion pictures.
American fiction.
Detective and mystery films.
American fiction
Detective and mystery films
Detective and mystery stories, American
Film noir
Masculinity in literature
Masculinity in motion pictures
Noir fiction, American
United States
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. What Would Robert Mitchum Do? The Cultural Production of Pulp Virilities
  • 2. The Eisenhower Blues: Returning GIs and Racial Masquerade
  • 3. Pulp Sexualities: Gender and American Popular Crime Fiction at Midcentury
  • 4. Run Man Run: Black Urban Crime Fiction in the 1960s and 1970s
  • 5. Nightmare Alleys: The Afterlives of Pulp Virility.

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