Re: RARA-AVIS: can noir writers advocate social reform?

From: Patrick King ( abrasax93@yahoo.com)
Date: 25 Nov 2006


Re: A Hell of a Woman, this is the story of a poor man willing to do murder to get a keep a woman whom he neither knows nor understands. It's his struggle for wealth and status that drives him to his ill-considered behavior. It doesn't get more political than that!

Patrick King
--- Dave Zeltserman < dz@hardluckstories.com> wrote:

> Killer Inside Me did have some pro union sentiment
> in it, and Swell-
> Looking Babe took a healthy swipe at the communist
> witch hunts going
> on, but I think it's kind a stretch to tie Hell of a
> Woman to any
> political agenda. Also, Patrick mentioned the
> Grifters not the
> Getaway, but at this point I'd have to reread The
> Grifters to state
> an opinion, although after previous readings I was
> never left with
> impression that it had any political agenda.
>
> --Dave Z.
>
> --- In rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, Michael Robison
> <miker_zspider@...> wrote:
> >
> > Patrick King wrote:
> >
> > You miss argueably the most important: Jim
> Thompson.
> > By all accounts Thompson definitely had a
> political
> > agenda. Note especially A Hell of a Woman, The
> > Grifters and The Killer Inside Me.
> >
> > ***********
> > I see nothing significantly political about The
> Killer
> > Inside Me. And his little allegory of capitalism
> in
> > The Getaway is compromised by the fact that there
> are
> > no other options for the characters.
> >
> > miker
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
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