LEADER 03663nam 22006135 450 001 9910592981503321 005 20230810175615.0 010 $a9783031090547$b(electronic bk.) 010 $z9783031090530 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-031-09054-7 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC7084590 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL7084590 035 $a(CKB)24819546200041 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-031-09054-7 035 $a(EXLCZ)9924819546200041 100 $a20220910d2022 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aPulp Virilities and Post-War American Culture /$fby Arthur Redding 205 $a1st ed. 2022. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2022. 215 $a1 online resource (192 pages) 225 1 $aRenewing the American Narrative,$x2524-8340 311 08$aPrint version: Redding, Arthur Pulp Virilities and Post-War American Culture Cham : Springer International Publishing AG,c2022 9783031090530 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $a1. 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. 330 $aThis book interrogates the repertoire of masculine performance in popular crime fiction and cinema from the 1940s, 50s, and 60s. This critical survey of the back alleys of pulp culture reveals American masculinities to be unsettled, contentious, crisis-ridden, racially fraught, and sexually anxious. Libertarian in their sensibilities, self-aggrandizing in their sentiments, resistant to the lures of upper mobility, scornful of white collar and corporate culture, the protagonists of these popular and populist works viewed themselves as working-class heroes cast adrift. Pulp Virilities explores the enduring traditions of hard-boiled and noir literature, casting a critical eye on its depictions of urban life and representations of gender, crime, labor, and race. Demonstrating how anxieties and possibilities of American masculinity are hammered out in works of popular culture, Pulp Virilities provides a rich cultural genealogy of contemporary American social life. Arthur Redding is Professor of English at York University in Toronto, Canada, where he teaches American literature. He has written four books and numerous articles about such topics as anarchism and writing, the culture of the Cold War, contemporary gothic fiction, and American public intellectuals. . 410 0$aRenewing the American Narrative,$x2524-8340 606 $aLiterature 606 $aAmerica$xLiteratures 606 $aLiterature, Modern$y20th century 606 $aLiterature 606 $aNorth American Literature 606 $aTwentieth-Century Literature 606 $aLiterature, Gender and Sexuality 615 0$aLiterature. 615 0$aAmerica$xLiteratures. 615 0$aLiterature, Modern 615 14$aLiterature. 615 24$aNorth American Literature. 615 24$aTwentieth-Century Literature. 615 24$aLiterature, Gender and Sexuality. 676 $a813 676 $a813.087209 700 $aRedding$b Arthur$01257821 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 912 $a9910592981503321 996 $aPulp Virilities and Post-War American Culture$92914731 997 $aUNINA