The Street Was Mine: White Masculinity in Hardboiled Fiction and Film Noir

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The Street Was Mine: White Masculinity in Hardboiled Fiction and Film Noir

This book considers a recurrent figure in American literature: the solitary white man moving through urban space. The descendent of 19th-century frontier and western heroes, the figure reemerges in 1930s-’50s America as the “tough guy.” The Street Was Mine looks to the tough guy in the works of hardboiled novelists Raymond Chandler (The Big Sleep) and James M. Cain (Double Indemnity) and their popular film noir adaptations. Focusing on the way he negotiates racial and gender “otherness,” this study argues that the tough guy embodies the promise of an impervious white masculinity amidst the turmoil of the Depression through the beginnings of the Cold War. The book concludes with an analysis of Chester Himes, whose Harlem crime novels (For Love of Imabelle) unleash a ferocious revisionary critique of the tough guy tradition.

ISBN: 0312294816

Author: Megan E. Abbott

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Rating: 3.92

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All Night Movie

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All Night Movie

An irreverent picaresque, All Night Movie follows the adventures of a young woman determined to conquer the world. A rogues' gallery of labor union leaders, cultists, lesbians, murderers, ne'er-do-wells, prostitutes, and visitors to a disconcertingly erotic telephone booth accompany the picara as she pushes the limits established in patriarchal postdictatorship Argentina. With lyric prose, Alicia Borinsky creates a hypnotic kaleidoscope of voices--a tantalizing and illuminating mix of the pop culture, politics, sexuality, tango, and cinema of an enigmatic society that celebrates its own demise.

ISBN: 0810119544

Author: Alicia Borinsky

Publisher: Northwestern University Press

Rating: 3.62

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Leadingideas: To The Point Training for Christian Leaders

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Leadingideas: To The Point Training for Christian Leaders

ISBN: 0764424483

Author: Alan E. Nelson

Publisher: Group Publishing (CO)

Rating: 2.00

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The Invisible Man: A Grotesque Romance

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The Invisible Man: A Grotesque Romance

A gripping and entertaining tale of terror and suspense as well as a potent Faustian allegory of hubris and science run amok, The Invisible Man endures as one of the signature stories in the literature of science fiction. A brilliant scientist uncovers the secret to invisibility, but his grandiose dreams and the power he unleashes cause him to spiral into intrigue, madness, and murder. The inspiration for countless imitations and film adaptations, The Invisible Man is as remarkable and relevant today as it was a hundred years ago. As Arthur C. Clarke points out in his Introduction, “The interest of the story . . . lies not in its scientific concepts, but in the brilliantly worked out development of the theme of invisibility. If one could be invisible, then what?”

ISBN: 0812966457

Author: H.G. Wells

Publisher: Modern Library

Rating: 3.60

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Fifth Life of the Cat Woman

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Fifth Life of the Cat Woman

Part magical realism, part love story, this book is a vividly imagined (Jill Paton Walsh) allegory of prejudice, intolerance, and second chances.

ISBN: 0425186180

Author: Kathleen Dexter

Publisher: Berkley Trade

Rating: 4.22

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This Bridge We Call Home: Radical Visions for Transformation

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This Bridge We Call Home: Radical Visions for Transformation

Over 20 years the anthology This Bridge Called My Back challenged feminists to envision new forms of communities and practices. Gloria E. Anzaldúa and AnaLouise Keating have brought together an ambitions collection of over 80 original contributions offering a bold new vision of women-of-colour consciousness for the 21st century.

ISBN: 0415936829

Author: Gloria E. Anzaldúa

Publisher: Routledge

Rating: 4.26

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The Stepford Wives

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The Stepford Wives

For Joanna, her husband, Walter, and their children, the move to beautiful Stepford seems almost too good to be true. It is. For behind the town's idyllic facade lies a terrible secret -- a secret so shattering that no one who encounters it will ever be the same.

At once a masterpiece of psychological suspense and a savage commentary on a media-driven society that values the pursuit of youth and beauty at all costs, The Stepford Wives is a novel so frightening in its final implications that the title itself has earned a place in the American lexicon.

ISBN: 0060080841

Author: Ira Levin

Publisher: Perennial

Rating: 3.68

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Death Kit

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Death Kit

First published in 1967, Death Kit--Susan Sontag's second novel--is a classic of modern fiction. Blending realism and dream, it offers a passionate exploration of the recesses of the American conscience.

ISBN: 0312420110

Author: Susan Sontag

Publisher: Picador

Rating: 3.52

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Styles of Radical Will

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Styles of Radical Will

Styles of Radical Will, Susan Sontag's second collection of essays, extends the investigations she undertook in Against Interpretation with essays on film, literature, politics, and a groundbreaking study of pornography.

ISBN: 0312420218

Author: Susan Sontag

Publisher: Picador

Rating: 4.13

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I, etcetera

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I, etcetera

In eight stories, this singular collection of short fiction written over the course of ten years explores the terrain of modern urban life. In reflective, telegraphic prose, Susan Sontag confronts the reader with exposed workings of an impassioned intellect in narratives seamed with many of the themes of her essays—the nature of knowing, our relationship with the past, and the future in an alienated present.

ISBN: 0312420102

Author: Susan Sontag

Publisher: Picador

Rating: 3.70

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Comedy Is A Man In Trouble: Slapstick In American Movies

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Comedy Is A Man In Trouble: Slapstick In American Movies

ISBN: 0816636583

Author: Alan S. Dale

Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press

Rating: 3.27

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Embracing Brokenness: How God Refines Us Through Life s Disappointments

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Embracing Brokenness: How God Refines Us Through Life s Disappointments

Embracing Brokenness shows how a godly view of brokenness brings purpose and meaning to life’s inevitable disappointments.

ISBN: 1576833135

Author: Alan E. Nelson

Publisher: NavPress

Rating: 4.00

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