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

by Megan Abbott (Author)

• New

  Hardcover
  2003

  $149.98

  This work considers a recurrent figure in American literature: the solitary white man moving through urban space. It 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.