Rob, surely every screenwriter on The Wire or Deadwood can't
have the same 'social assumptions.'? What about co-authored
novels -- James Patterson's 'social assumptions' or the guy
who writes the novel from Patterson's spec? What about books
written under house names -- can you tell the various authors
apart by their different 'social assumptions'? What about
Eric Knight, who wrote LASSIE, and, under the name Richard
Hallas, also wrote YOU PLAY THE BLACK AND THE RED COMES UP --
same 'social assumptions'? What about multiple viewpoint
narratives, where the 'social assumptions' differ from
character to character -- how do you know which 'social
assumption' (if any) is the author's?
Al
----- Original Message -----
From: Rob Preece, Publisher
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Sent: Sunday, September 03, 2006 8:41 PM
Subject: RARA-AVIS: Hardboiled and Marxism
I'm straining my mind to come up with examples
(without much luck--where did I leave my memory), but there
were dozens of B movies from the 40s and early 50s that were
strongly hardboiled and carried profoundly socialistic
messages. The McCarthy-driven purge of the movie industry was
partly driven by these films. I'm not talking about Grapes of
Wrath here (although that was a great movie, it was hardly
hardboiled).
What an interesting discussion. I think that most
fiction carries with it the social assumptions of its
author--whether he/she admits it or not.
Rob Preece
Publisher, www.BooksForABuck.com
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