Food, Consumption, and Masculinity in American Hardboiled Fiction
Food, Consumption, and Masculinity in American Hardboiled Fiction draws on three related bodies of knowledge: crime fiction criticism, masculinity studies, and the cultural analysis of food and consumption practices from a critical eating studies perspective. In particular, this book focuses on food...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Palgrave Macmillan
2023, 2023
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2023 |
| Series: | Crime Files
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- 1 Introduction: Consumption, Control, and Cannibalism
- 2 Criminal Consumption in Dashiell Hammett’s The Maltese Falcon (1929)
- 3 Control and Cannibalism in Raymond Chandler’s The Big Sleep (1939)
- 4 Mature Consumption in Leigh Brackett’s No Good from a Corpse (1944)
- 5 Pathologies of Prophylactic Masculinity in Dorothy B. Hughes’s In a Lonely Place (1947)
- 6 Dangers of Postwar Satiety in Jim Thompson’s The Killer Inside Me (1952)
- 7 Homosocial Consumption in Rex Stout’s Champagne for One (1958)
- 8 Conclusions