@article{1449642,
      recid = {1449642},
      author = {Redding, Arthur F.,},
      title = {Pulp virilities and post-war American culture /},
      pages = {1 online resource.},
      abstract = {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.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1449642},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-09054-7},
}