Pulp Virilities and Post-War American Culture

by Arthur F. Redding

Book Overview

This 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3031090535
• ISBN13: 9783031090530
• Release Date: September 2022
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 182 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.8" x 8.3"