Library Manager
Manage your library—your way. Keep a running list or organize archived books into little stacks. i.e. Beach Reads, Cozy Covers, True Crime, etc.
The Street Was Mine
A work of Non-fiction by Megan Abbott
Subgenres:
- Literary Criticism,
- Film Studies
This book is for you if you're into...
- Deep dives into the tough guy archetype in noir fiction
- Analysis of masculinity and race in mid-century American literature
- Literary criticism that connects classic novels to their film adaptations
This book considers a recurrent figure in American literature: the solitary white man moving through urban space.
The descendent of Nineteenth-century frontier and western heroes, the figure re-emerges in 1930-50s 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, closing with an analysis of Chester Himes, whose Harlem crime novels ( For Love of Imabelle ) unleash a ferocious revisionary critique of the tough guy tradition.
Follow This Author
Sign up & we'll email you when a new title is available for pre-order or hits the bookshelf
El Dorado Drive
2025
Beware the Woman
2023
The Turnout
2021
Give Me Your Hand
2018
The Little Men
2016
You Will Know Me
2016
Get Free & Discounted eBooks
Curated reads, irresistible prices—subscribe now