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Pulp Virilities and Post-War American Culture (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)
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Pulp Virilities and Post-War American Culture (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)
Series: Renewing the American Narrative
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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.
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