Pulp virilities and post-war American culture / Arthur Redding.
Redding, Arthur F., 1964- author.
2022
PS648.D4
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Title Pulp virilities and post-war American culture / Arthur Redding.
Author Redding, Arthur F., 1964- author.
ISBN 9783031090547 (electronic bk.)
3031090543 (electronic bk.)
9783031090530
3031090535
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-09054-7
Published Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.
Language English
Description 1 online resource.
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-031-09054-7 doi
Call Number PS648.D4
Dewey Decimal Classification 813.087209
Summary 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. Libertarian in their sensibilities, self-aggrandizing in their sentiments, resistant to the lures of upper mobility, scornful of white collar and corporate culture, the protagonists of these popular and populist works viewed themselves as working-class heroes cast adrift. Pulp Virilities explores the enduring traditions of hard-boiled and noir literature, casting a critical eye on its depictions of urban life and representations of gender, crime, labor, and race. Demonstrating how anxieties and possibilities of American masculinity are hammered out in works of popular culture, Pulp Virilities provides a rich cultural genealogy of contemporary American social life. Arthur Redding is Professor of English at York University in Toronto, Canada, where he teaches American literature. He has written four books and numerous articles about such topics as anarchism and writing, the culture of the Cold War, contemporary gothic fiction, and American public intellectuals.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Source of Description Description based on print version record.
Series Renewing the American narrative.
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5. Nightmare Alleys: The Afterlives of Pulp Virility.

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