I thought someone posted the guidelines to the original Black
Mask or another hardboiled mag once and it had in it that the
writing was supposed to be geared towards male readers
(paraphrased of course). I tried to find it searching the
archive, but never got the right keyword to hit it. Good for
trivial interest.
-- Anthony Dauer Alexandria, Virginia
2nd Annual Country Noir Issue ...
http://www.adau.net/judas_ezine/
... submit by 4 May 2002
-----Original Message----- From: George Upper Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2002 6:59 AM
This has a lot to do with its origins in the pulps, which were read primarily (thought not exclusively, of course) by blue collar men in the twenties and thirties. There's at least one whole book on this subject...the title escapes me at the moment, but I believe it's by Dr. Erin Smith.
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