miker wrote:
"Associating the morals of a protagonist with those of
appreciative readers sounds like a solid theory to
me. I went back in the archives and made a list of
those who liked Lolita and sent it to the authorities."
Good one.
I enjoy a fair amount of pop culture that counters my real
life beliefs. For instance, 24 is a lot of fun, but I
certainly wouldn't applaud the actions depicted in it in real
life. And I like the certainty of much hardboiled heroism.
Not many people got wrongly killed by heroes in vintage
hardboiled.
That's one of the shifts that Block (ha, tied it in to this
month) was a part of. Scudder's albatross is the innocent
child he accidentally shot when pursuing a criminal while
drunk. The heroes aren't quite so heroic anymore.
Mark
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