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Author
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Crime fiction expert Susanna Lee tracks the evolution of the hard-boiled character type over time and media in the United States. She shows how crime fiction rose in popularity at times of national conflict. Readers and viewers crave the sort of grit and independence that the hard-boiled detective offers when reality may leave them feeling they lack control over their own lives. This is a study of literature and film and also a work of cultural studies"--...
2) Get out
Author
Publisher
Inventory Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Jordan Peele's powerful thriller 'Get Out' debuted in 2017 to enormous public and critical acclaim, a 'Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?' for the age of Obama and Trump that scared audiences and skewered white liberal pieties at the same time. Rather than rely on popular archetypes, Peele weaves together the material realities and daily manifestations of horror with sociopolitical fears and elements of true suspense, and combines them with pitch-perfect...
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