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The Street Was Mine: White Masculinity in Hardboiled Fiction and Film Noir M. Abbott
The Street Was Mine: White Masculinity in Hardboiled Fiction and Film Noir
M. Abbott
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.
256 pages, bibliography
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | February 6, 2003 |
| ISBN13 | 9780312294816 |
| Publishers | St Martin's Press |
| Pages | 246 |
| Dimensions | 223 × 147 × 19 mm · 444 g |