The Sacred Ginmill Closes: Heavy Drinking, White Masculinity and the Hard-Boiled Detective in American Culture
Through close readings of fiction, film, and television, “The Sacred Ginmill Closes” provides a cultural history of the heavy-drinking hard-boiled detective in his twentieth-century cultural prime. Emergent in the Prohibition era, hard-boiled fiction comprised a cultural response to both the real an...
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W&M ScholarWorks
2017
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| Online Access: | https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1516639674 https://scholarworks.wm.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1237&context=etd |