> While it would be a mistake to read too much into it,
I think
>that it *does* hold true across the genre. The wealthy
have privilege to
>which others cannot lay claim. The police are corrupt
or, at best,
>ineffectual. Religon tends to be portrayed as a con,
politics as a cruel
>joke on the public. These elements are as true of
Spillane, Daly , Nebel,
>etc., as they are of more explicitly leftist writers
like Chandler, Hammett,
>and MacDonald. I doubt that the question would even
arise except that the
>term "class critique" has a communist connotation. If
one was to describe
>the politics of hardboiled as "anti-status quo", I
think that there would be
>widespread agreement.
That definitely holds true with L.A. Confidential.
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