Pulp Virilities And Post War American Culture

Author : Arthur Redding
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
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Release : 2022
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3031090551

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This book interrogates the repertoire of masculine performance in popular crime fiction and cinema from the 1940s, 50s, and 60s. This critical survey of the back alleys of pulp culture reveals American masculinities to be unsettled, contentious, crisis-ridden, racially fraught, and sexually anxious. Libertarian in their sensibilities, self-aggrandizing in their sentiments, resistant to the lures of upper mobility, scornful of white collar and corporate culture, the protagonists of these popular and populist works viewed themselves as working-class heroes cast adrift. Pulp Virilities explores the enduring traditions of hard-boiled and noir literature, casting a critical eye on its depictions of urban life and representations of gender, crime, labor, and race. Demonstrating how anxieties and possibilities of American masculinity are hammered out in works of popular culture, Pulp Virilities provides a rich cultural genealogy of contemporary American social life. Arthur Redding is Professor of English at York University in Toronto, Canada, where he teaches American literature. He has written four books and numerous articles about such topics as anarchism and writing, the culture of the Cold War, contemporary gothic fiction, and American public intellectuals. .

Author : Arthur Redding
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2022-09-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783031090547

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Pulp Virilities and Post-War American Culture by Arthur Redding Pdf

This book interrogates the repertoire of masculine performance in popular crime fiction and cinema from the 1940s, 50s, and 60s. This critical survey of the back alleys of pulp culture reveals American masculinities to be unsettled, contentious, crisis-ridden, racially fraught, and sexually anxious. Libertarian in their sensibilities, self-aggrandizing in their sentiments, resistant to the lures of upper mobility, scornful of white collar and corporate culture, the protagonists of these popular and populist works viewed themselves as working-class heroes cast adrift. Pulp Virilities explores the enduring traditions of hard-boiled and noir literature, casting a critical eye on its depictions of urban life and representations of gender, crime, labor, and race. Demonstrating how anxieties and possibilities of American masculinity are hammered out in works of popular culture, Pulp Virilities provides a rich cultural genealogy of contemporary American social life.

Author : Florian Klaeger,Klaus Stierstorfer,Marlena Tronicke
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2022-10-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110775884

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Symbolism by Florian Klaeger,Klaus Stierstorfer,Marlena Tronicke Pdf

Special Focus: "Omission", edited by Patrick Gill Throughout literary history and in many cultures, we encounter an astute use of conspicuous absences to conjure an imagined reality into a recipient’s mind. The term ‘omission’ as used in the present study, then, demarcates a common artistic phenomenon: a silence, blank, or absence, introduced against the recipient’s generic or experiential expectations, but which nonetheless frequently encapsulates the tenor of the work as a whole. Such omissions can be employed for their affective potential, when emotions represented or evoked by the text are deemed to be beyond words. They can be employed to raise epistemological questions, as when an omission marks the limits of what can be known. Ethical questions can also be approached by means of omissions, as when a character’s voice is omitted, for instance. Finally, omission always carries within it the potential to reflect on the media and genres on which it is brought to bear: as its efficacy depends on the recipient’s generic expectations, omission is frequently characterized by a high degree of meta-discursiveness. This volume investigates the various strategies with which the phenomenon of omission is employed across a range of textual forms and in different cultures to conclusively argue for its status as a highly effective and near-universal form of artistic signification.

Author : Gregory A. Daddis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108493505

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Pulp Vietnam by Gregory A. Daddis Pdf

Explores how Cold War men's magazines idealized warrior-heroes and sexual-conquerors and normalized conceptions of martial masculinity.

Author : Woody Haut
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8293326018

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Pulp Culture by Woody Haut Pdf

Pulp Culture takes the reader on a walk down the Mean Streets of post-war America to investigate the classic texts of the American hardboiled crime fiction and the era from which they came. With crooks hiding in every doorway and commies lurking under every bed, crime fiction - its gaudy paperback covers portraying men with guns and women with low necklines - was avidly read by a nation adjusting to the Cold War and the Atomic Era. Beginning with Dashiell Hammett testifying before Senator Joseph McCarthy, Pulp Culture pursues the lives and work of crime writers who approached the genre at street level: David Goodis, Chester Himes, Jim Thompson, Dorothy B. Hughes, Dolores Hitchens, Leigh Brackett, Raymond Chandler, Mickey Spillane, Howard Browne, William P. McGivern, Lionel White, Ross MacDonald, Horace McCoy, Charles Willeford and Charles Williams. Pulp Culture is essential reading for anyone interested in noir writing, films and the post-war era.

Author : Catherine Spooner,Dale Townshend
Publisher : Cambridge History of the G
Page : 555 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2021-08-19
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781108472722

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The Cambridge History of the Gothic: Volume 3, Gothic in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries by Catherine Spooner,Dale Townshend Pdf

The first volume to provide an interdisciplinary, comprehensive history of twentieth and twenty-first century Gothic culture.

Author : Roel van den Oever
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2015-12-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1349445495

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Mama's Boy by Roel van den Oever Pdf

In postwar America, the discourse of Momism advanced the idea that an over-affectionate or too-distant mother hampers the social and psychosexual development of her children, in particular her sons. Deemed worst of all was the outcome of homosexuality, since the period saw an intense policing of sexual deviance. van den Oever zooms in on four instances of the cultural representation of Momism: The Grotto, by Grace Zaring Stone, Suddenly Last Summer, by Tennessee Williams, Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho, and Portnoy's Complaint, by Philip Roth, to offer new commentary on canonical texts, a particular moment in American culture, and future reading strategies.

Author : Roel van den Oever
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2012-09-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1137274050

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Mama's Boy by Roel van den Oever Pdf

In postwar America, the discourse of Momism advanced the idea that an over-affectionate or too-distant mother hampers the social and psychosexual development of her children, in particular her sons. Deemed worst of all was the outcome of homosexuality, since the period saw an intense policing of sexual deviance. van den Oever zooms in on four instances of the cultural representation of Momism: The Grotto, by Grace Zaring Stone, Suddenly Last Summer, by Tennessee Williams, Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho, and Portnoy's Complaint, by Philip Roth, to offer new commentary on canonical texts, a particular moment in American culture, and future reading strategies.

Author : John Carlos Rowe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN : 023106733X

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The Vietnam War and American Culture by John Carlos Rowe Pdf

Examines how the Vietnam War is perceived in American culture, especially by those who were not in Vietnam.

Author : Masʼud Zavarzadeh
Publisher : Urbana : University of Illinois Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : American fiction
ISBN : STANFORD:36105003783383

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The Mythopoeic Reality by Masʼud Zavarzadeh Pdf

Author : Denis Jonnes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2018-02-06
Category : American literature
ISBN : 1138547867

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Cold War American Literature and the Rise of Youth Culture by Denis Jonnes Pdf

Demands placed on many young Americans as a result of the Cold War give rise to an increasingly age-segregated society. This separation allowed adolescents and young adults to begin to formulate an identity distinct from previous generations, and was a significant factor in their widespread rejection of contemporary American society. This study traces the emergence of a distinctive post-war family dynamic between parent and adolescent or already adult child. In-depth readings of individual writers such as, Arthur Miller, William Styron, J. D. Salinger, Tennessee Williams, Vladimir Nabokov, Jack Kerouac, Flannery O'Connor and Sylvia Plath, situate their work in relation to the Cold War and suggest how the figuring of adolescents and young people reflected and contributed to an empowerment of American youth. This book is a superb research tool for any student or academic with an interest in youth culture, cultural studies, American studies, cold war studies, twentieth-century American literature, history of the family, and age studies.

Author : Sharon Stockton
Publisher : Ohio State University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780814210185

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The Economics of Fantasy by Sharon Stockton Pdf

The author examines the evolution of the rape narrative in twentieth-century literature: What accounts for the persistence of the old story of male power and violence, and female passivity and penetrability? How has the story changed over the course of the twentieth century? She investigates the manner in which the violation of the female body serves as a metaphor for a synthesis of masculinity and political economy.

Author : Kriss Ravetto
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0816637431

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The Unmaking of Fascist Aesthetics by Kriss Ravetto Pdf

In works by filmmakers from Bertolucci to Spielberg, debauched images of nazi and fascist eroticism, symbols of violence and immorality, often bear an uncanny resemblance to the images and symbols once used by the fascists themselves to demarcate racial, sexual, and political others. This book exposes the "madness" inherent in such a course, which attests to the impossibility of disengaging visual and rhetorical constructions from political, ideological, and moral codes. Kriss Ravetto argues that contemporary discourses using such devices actually continue unacknowledged rhetorical, moral, and visual analogies of the past. Against postwar fictional and historical accounts of World War II in which generic images of evil characterize the nazi and the fascist, Ravetto sets the more complex approach of such filmmakers as Pier Paolo Pasolini, Liliana Cavani, and Lina Wertmuller. Her book asks us to think deeply about what it means to say that we have conquered fascism, when the aesthetics of fascism still describe and determine how we look at political figures and global events. Book jacket.

Author : Arthur F. Redding
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2011-09-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780817317461

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Haints by Arthur F. Redding Pdf

"In Haints, Arthur Redding examines the work of contemporary American authors who draw on the gothic tradition in their fiction, not as frivolous or supernatural entertainments, but to explore and memorialize the ghosts of their heritage. Ghosts, Redding argues, serve as lasting witnesses to the legacies of slaves and indigenous peoples whose stories were lost in the remembrance or mistranslation of history. No matter how much Americans willingly or unwillingly repress the true history of their ancestry, their ghosts remain unburied and restless. Such authors as Toni Morrison and Leslie Marmon Silko deploy the ghost as a means of reconciling their own violently repressed heritage with their identity as modern Americans. And just as our ancestors were haunted by ghosts of the past, today we are haunted by ghosts of contemporary crises: urban violence, racial hatred, and even terrorism. In other cases that Redding studies--such as James Baldwin's The Evidence of Things Not Seen and Toni Cade Bambara's Those Bones Are Not My Child--writers address similar crises to challenge traditional American claims of innocence and justice. Finally, Redding argues that ghosts emphasize a growing worry about a larger impending crisis: the apocalypse. Yet the despair the apocalypse inspires is vital to providing the grounds for new solutions to modern issues. In the end, the armies of the dispossessed enlist the forces of the spirit world to create a better future--by ensuring that mistakes of the past are not repeated, that Americans do not deny their heritage, and that accountability exists for any given crisis."--book jacket.

Author : Arthur F. Redding
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : American fiction
ISBN : UCSC:32106014027087

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Raids on Human Consciousness by Arthur F. Redding Pdf

However one looks at violence -- as an instrument of bureaucracy or ideology; as a product of racial, gender, or class antagonisms; or as the inevitable result of power politics -- it is an integral part of every social system and is one of the most pressing problems of our tortured century. In Raids on Human Consciousness Arthur Redding examines the contention that violence, be it the mass product of revolutionary uprising or a private sadomasochistic indulgence, may be taken to instill in those who commit it the capacity for radical change. Conscious that mainstream theory considers violence deviant, a departure from the normal equilibrium of social and aesthetic structures, while other critiques take it to be integral to any dynamic system, Redding begins with the anarchist inquiry into the relationship of violence to the imaginary representation of modern communities. He explores the "public images" of anarchism in literature and popular culture and emphasizes the diverse strategies by which modern writers encounter, derive, deflect, and manipulate fantasies of political violence. Redding recognizes that language fails when confronted with the extreme suffering of human bodies. Acknowledging that flesh is subject to war, torture, and everyday brutality -- violations to which language can never do justice -- he nonetheless finds it urgent to reclaim language on the far side of suffering.