- Title
- Hard-boiled detectives and the Roman noir tradition
- Creator
- Franks, Rachel
- Relation
- Violence in American Popular Culture p. 95-117
- Relation
- Representations of Violence in Popular Cultural Genres Vol. 2
- Relation
- http://publisher.abc-clio.com/9781440832062/
- Publisher
- Praeger
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2016
- Description
- This timely collection provides a historical overview of violence in American popular culture from the Puritan era to the present and across a range of media. ; Provides a narrative of the development of violence in American popular culture, illustrating both continuity and change ; Combines an overview of each essay's subject matter with in-depth analysis of specific examples ; Features discussion of well-known portrayers of violence, such as film and television, as well as lesser-known sources—for example, murder ballads and Puritan sermons—helping readers place contemporary concerns and examples into a detailed historical context ; Suggests directions for future research and other developments in the field ; Includes a keyword index to enable readers to track continuities across the various essays.
- Subject
- violence in popular culture; violence in mass media; mass media and culture; United States
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1349135
- Identifier
- uon:30347
- Identifier
- ISBN:9781440832055
- Language
- eng
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