Hard-boiled [[electronic resource] ] : working class readers and pulp magazines / / Erin A. Smith
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| Autore: |
Smith Erin A (Erin Ann), <1970->
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| Titolo: |
Hard-boiled [[electronic resource] ] : working class readers and pulp magazines / / Erin A. Smith
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| Pubblicazione: | Philadelphia, : Temple University Press, 2000 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (230 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 813/.087209052 |
| Soggetto topico: | Detective and mystery stories, American - History and criticism |
| American fiction - 20th century - History and criticism | |
| Popular literature - United States - History and criticism | |
| Literature and society - United States - History - 20th century | |
| Periodicals - Publishing - United States - History - 20th century | |
| Working class - Books and reading - United States - History - 20th century | |
| Detectives in literature | |
| Crime in literature | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-210) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I: Reconstructing Readers; 1. The Hard-Boiled Writer and the literary Marketplace; 2. The Adman on the Shop Floor: Workers, Consumer Culture, and the Pulps; Part II : Reading Hard-Boiled Fiction; 3. Proletarian Plots; 4. Dressed to Kill; 5. Talking Tough; 6. The Office Wife; Afterword; Notes; Index |
| Sommario/riassunto: | In the 1920's a distinctively American detective fiction emerged from the pages of pulp magazines. The "hard-boiled" stories published in Black Mask, Dime Detective, Detective Fiction Weekly, and Clues featured a new kind of hero and soon challenged the popularity of the British mysteries that held readers in thrall on both sides of the Atlantic. In Hard-Boiled Erin A. Smith examines the culture that produced and supported this form of detective story through the 1940's. Relying on pulp magazine advertising, the memoirs of writers and publishers, Depression-era |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Hard-boiled |
| ISBN: | 1-282-70131-2 |
| 9786612701313 | |
| 1-59213-911-6 | |
| 0-585-36674-8 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910455492203321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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