FYI, my book on Australian pulp covers is finally
launched--you might remember my enquiry about Italian and
French names for pbos/pulps.
(
http://www.nla.gov.au/apps/onlineshop?action=OLSDisplay&id=nla.int-
ls10766-bk).
Second, I'm writing a book on Carter Brown (aka Alan Yates)
and my meagre reading in hardboiled/noir has left me
scratching my head (thanks Jim D for your great definitions
ages ago). Clearly CB does not fit into either of these
categories (and there is a noticeable shift from his
Australian stuff to his US stuff); he's from the Richard
Prather/Gil Brewer/Brunch Fischer school. Were publishes Gold
Medal, Signet etc to a new tv audience ie we want series like
the ones on telly ( do have quotes from authors about this
movement)? In my limited reading I postulate a shift from
1951. By 1960 pbos are so formulaic, I stopped my research
there. Am I being too outta line thinking I'm reading a new
genre a bourgeois harboiled. The main differences being:
increased details of women's clothing, food, cultural
artefacts etc; lack of interest in political ideologies;
tendency to shy from cleaning up the streets/ city; decreased
paranoia about govt. conspiracies; a more benign attitude
to
'the mob' or 'the racket'; more humorous style/tone.
Comments...suggestions.... (if not appropriate for list
please email me directly)
cheers toni
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