Detectives in the Shadows
Subtitle: A Hard-Boiled History
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2020
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781421437095
Subjects: American literature
Description: "Crime fiction expert Susanna Lee tracks the evolution of the hard-boiled character type over time and media in the United States. She shows how crime fiction rose in popularity at times of national conflict. Readers and viewers crave the sort of grit and independence that the hard-boiled detective offers when reality may leave them feeling they lack control over their own lives. This is a study of literature and film and also a work of cultural studies"--