Re: RARA-AVIS: can noir writers advocate social reform?

From: Dave Zeltserman ( dz@hardluckstories.com)
Date: 25 Nov 2006


--- In rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, Michael Robison
<miker_zspider@...> wrote:
>
> Patrick King wrote:
>
> You miss argueably the most important: Jim Thompson.
> By all accounts Thompson definitely had a political
> agenda. Note especially A Hell of a Woman, The
> Grifters and The Killer Inside Me.
>
> ***********
> I see nothing significantly political about The Killer
> Inside Me. And his little allegory of capitalism in
> The Getaway is compromised by the fact that there are
> no other options for the characters.
>
> miker
>
>
>
>
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