Bill Hagen said:
> Guess my thesis is that the Depression widened the
appeal of crime/noir
> fiction, so it seems natural that the social and
political solutions of
that
> era should thread their way in the fiction as
well.
yup. i agree. the crime noir library of america collection i
mentioned had three from the 30's, cain's _the postman always
rings twice_, anderson's
_thieves like us_, and mccoy's _they shoot horses, don't
they?_. they all show a strong influence from the
depression.
i'm thinking that perhaps the lawlessness of the prohibition
era might have been another situation where real life
effected crime/noir fiction.
combine the financial desperation of the depression and
prohibition's ro- manticized role of the criminal, and noir
starts looking like art imitating life. at least in an
oversimplified way.
miker
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