Re: RARA-AVIS: Re: How The Liberals Are Screwing Up Crime Fiction!!!

From: david david ( davividavid@yahoo.com)
Date: 06 Sep 2006


this reminds me of the argument that noir films are inherently anti-feminist because strong women get killed off versus the opposing argument that they are such memorable women that their strengths reverberate beyond the screen. noir then is anti and pro woman.

--- Michael Robison < miker_zspider@yahoo.com> wrote:

> JIM DOHERTY wrote:
>
> If someone suggested that the hard-boiled PI story
> is
> inherently right-wing (and it seems to me there was
> a
> book about the genre that did just that)...
>
> ************
> Good post, Jim.
>
> As a matter of fact, hardboiled is almost
> exclusively
> right wing. So says Ruehlmann in Saint With a Gun.
>
> Also, hardboiled is almost exclusively left wing.
> So
> says Haut in Pulp Culture.
>
> miker
>
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