Re: RARA-AVIS: dickless realities?

Words from the Monastery (jackechs@erols.com)
Fri, 12 Jun 1998 05:48:34 -0400 At 10:57 PM 6/11/98 -0400, you wrote:

> 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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