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Pulp virilities and post-war American culture

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Pulp virilities and post-war American cultureby Arthur Redding.
Author:	Redding, Arthur F.
Published:	Cham :Springer International Publishing :2022.
Description:	xii, 182 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm.
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	Detective and mystery stories, AmericanHistory and criticism.
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-09054-7
ISBN:	9783031090547$q(electronic bk.)

Pulp virilities and post-war American culture
Redding, Arthur F.

Pulp virilities and post-war American culture[electronic resource] /by Arthur Redding. - Cham :Springer International Publishing :2022. - xii, 182 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm. - Renewing the American narrative,2524-8340. - Renewing the American narrative..

1. What Would Robert Mitchum Do? The Cultural Production of Pulp Virilities -- 2. The Eisenhower Blues: Returning GIs and Racial Masquerade -- 3. Pulp Sexualities: Gender and American Popular Crime Fiction at Midcentury -- 4. Run Man Run: Black Urban Crime Fiction in the 1960s and 1970s -- 5. Nightmare Alleys: The Afterlives of Pulp Virility.

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.

ISBN: 9783031090547$q(electronic bk.)

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-031-09054-7doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

193094
Detective and mystery stories, American
--History and criticism.

LC Class. No.: PS648.D4

Dewey Class. No.: 813.087209

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