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Pulp culture : hardboiled fiction and the Cold War
- Title
- Pulp culture : hardboiled fiction and the Cold War / Woody Haut.
- Author
- Haut, Woody, 1945-
- Publication
- London ; New York, NY : Serpent's Tail, 1995.
- Supplementary Content
- Publisher description
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Details
- Description
- 230 p.; 21 cm
- Summary
- The author analyzes the texts of some classic American hard-boiled crime and mystery stories from the Cold War era. Included are works by: David Goodis, Chester Himes, Jim Thompson, Dorothy B. Hughes, Dolores Hitchens, Leigh Brackett, Raymond Chandler, Mickey Spillane, Howard Browne, Gil Brewer, William B. MCGivern, Lionel White, Ross MacDoanld, Horace McCoy, Charles Wileford, and Charles Williams.
- Donor/Sponsor
- Gift of the Drue Heinz Book Fund For English Literature [GRD copy]
- Alternative Title
- Hardboiled fiction and the Cold War
- Subjects
- Literature and society
- Popular literature
- Pulp literature
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- 1900 - 1999
- Cold War in literature
- Literature
- Crime in literature
- Popular literature > United States > History and criticism
- Cold War (1945-1989)
- Literature and society > United States > History > 20th century
- Pulp literature > History and criticism
- History
- Detective and mystery stories, American > History and criticism
- Noir fiction, American > History and criticism
- United States
- Crime
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 204-226) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: Better Dead than Read -- A Knife that Cuts Both Ways-- Taking Out Contracts -- Femme Fatality -- Profits of Crime -- Beaten to a Pulp -- Appendix 1 : Primary Pulp Culture Texts -- Appendix 2: From Pulp to Noir.
- Call Number
- JFD 96-6804
- ISBN
- 1852423196
- 9781852423193
- LCCN
- 95069753
- OCLC
- 33928980
- Author
- Haut, Woody, 1945-
- Title
- Pulp culture : hardboiled fiction and the Cold War / Woody Haut.
- Imprint
- London ; New York, NY : Serpent's Tail, 1995.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 204-226) and index.
- Connect to:
- Chronological Term
- 1900 - 1999
- Other Form:
- Online version: Haut, Woody, 1945- Pulp culture. London ; New York, NY : Serpent's Tail, 1995 (OCoLC)605042581
- Research Call Number
- JFD 96-6804