At 01:18 PM 25/02/2003 +1100, you wrote:
> >
> > I can envision a hardboiled novel *with*
inspectors that
> > takes place in a *manor* and has upper-class
protagonists.
> > To me, it all depends on what the author does
with these
> > elements.
> >
>Although it's not hardboiled, I think Robert Altman's
wonderful recent
>movie Gosford Park shows how you can take that form
and create something
>totally different with it.
I've had that movie in the back of my mind through this
discussion as well. Except I thought it depicted the upper
classes as antagonists. Maybe that's a bias from my rung on
the class ladder.
Best Kerry
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