Pulp Culture: Hardboiled Fiction and the Cold War
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
1852423196
ISBN 13
9781852423193
Category
Popular Culture
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Publication Year
1996
Publisher
Pages
240
Subject
Detective and mystery stories, American History and criticism; Noir fiction, American History and criticism
Abstract
The author analyzes the texts of some classic American hard-boiled crime and mystery stories from the Cold War era. Included are works by: David Goodis, Chester Himes, Jim Thompson, Raymond Chandler, Ross Macdonald, Mickey Spillane, Howard Browne, Dorothy B. Hughes, Dolores Hitchens, Leigh Brackett, Gil Brewer, William McGivern, Lionel White, Horace McCoy, Charles Willeford, and Charles Williams.
Number of Copies
1
