BobT wrote:
"But most contemporary writers who set stories in the past
seem to feel obliged to justify their research by loading on
the details. What they don't often capture is the attitude of
the times."
I seem to remember an interview with Robert Towne in which he
speaks to this issue in relation to Chinatown. He said they
all tried to get the period details correct, but to never
call attention to them, to have Gittes move through his world
with the taken-for-grantedness everyone has for their own
time.
Mark
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