Mark Sullivan wrote:
> This is one of the reasons I'm skeptical of most
period hardboiled. It
> looks back nostalgically to an earlier era the
author believes was more
> suited to the genre. And in my mind, nostalgia is
based upon a
> sentimentality that tends to undercut hardboiled. It
adds distance to a
> genre built on immediacy.
Nostalgia, though, includes a certain element of privileging
of an era, a viewpoint that the era in question was "the good
old days." I just can't see much period hardboiled feeling
that the period in question really was all that
wonderful.
The writers probably think that the time they write about was
better for their purposes, or more interesting in terms of
crime writing. But I don't see any nostalgia, as such.
jess
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