“…Hardboiled and high heeled…”

Table of Contents: “…The problem of the crime film -- Historical and cultural overview -- Critical overview -- Fury and the victim film -- The Godfather and the gangster film -- Double Indemnity and the film noir -- Basic Instinct and the erotic thriller -- Murder on the Orient Express, Blue Velvet, and the unofficial detective film -- Chinatown and the hardboiled detective film -- Bullitt and the police film -- Reversal of Fortune and the lawyer film -- Fargo and the crime comedy -- What good are crime films?…”
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Table of Contents: “…Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Hardboiled Masochism: The Corpse in Dashiell Hammett's The Glass Key; 2 Deadly Is the Female Animal: Smell in James Cain's Serenade; 3 The Apocalypse of Male Vision: Vomit in William Faulkner's Sanctuary; 4 The Killer in Me Is the Killer in You: Violent Voice in Jim Thompson's Pop. 1280; 5 The Waste of White Masculinity: Excrement in Chester Himes's Blind Man with a Pistol; Afterword; Notes; Index; About the Author.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Sources of Illustrations; Series Editors' Preface; Introduction: 'Having Your Nazi Cake and Eating it'; 1 Nazi Noir: Hardboiled Masculinity and Fascist Sensibility from Ambler and Greene to Philip Kerr; 2 The Fascist Corpus in the Age of Holocaust Remembrance; 3 'Fascism' as Excess and Abjection: Jonathan Littell's The Kindly Ones; 4 The Good German: The Stauffenberg Plot and its Discontents; 5 'Operation Kino': Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds as Meta-cinematic Farce; Coda; Bibliography; Index.…”
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Table of Contents: “…the making of a republican cuisine -- In search of an American cuisine: national identity and food -- "All my bones were made of Indian corn" : maize, revolution, and democracy -- An American painter's palate : Raphaelle Peale's food still lifes -- Domestic virtue and citizenship in Lydia Maria Child -- "Bread of our mothers" : Sylvester Graham and the health of the nation -- Cooking contest : regional, transnational, and class-based cuisines in the Antebellum U.S -- A republican cuisine -- "Wolf in chef's clothing" : manly cooking and negotiations of ideal masculinity -- Why the way to the heart is through the stomach -- "Men, meet the kitchen" : inventing manly cooking -- Flesh, blood, and Hemingway : campfire cooking and rugged masculinities -- Hardboiled cooking, femmes fatales, and American Noir -- Silver Spoons in their hands : the rise of the gourmet -- Playboys in the kitchen: manly cooking in the 1950s and 60s -- "Will cook for sex" : recipes for manly cooking -- "The difference is spreading" : recipes for lesbian living -- "Serving heteronormativity/queering the menu" -- Labor of love : gender-normativity and contradiction in 19th century cookbooks -- Tender Mutton: Gertrude Stein's household advice -- "La cuisine c'est la femme" : the Alice B. …”
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Table of Contents: “…-- Man Can Depend on God -- The Relevance of Blood -- Our Deepest Need -- Get at the Right Side -- Point of No Return -- Hardboiled Facts -- Easter's Secret -- The Crux of History -- The Supreme Fact of Faith -- Faith that Triumphs -- Always Too Soon to Despair -- Invincible! …”

Table of Contents: “…Crime and Justice in Nineteenth-Century Black Writing -- Crime Fiction and Black Writing, 1900-1932 -- Hardboiled Fiction and Black Writing -- Black Crime Writing and the Late Twentieth Century -- Attica Locke and Twenty-First-Century Black Crime Fiction -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Chapter 5. …”
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Table of Contents: “…Mattiessen meets Russell Cheney / Robert Polito ; The Johnson-Reed Act and ethnic literature / Yael Schacher -- 1925, "The Great Gatsby" / Lan Tran ; Sinclair Lewis / Jeffrey Ferguson ; The Scopes trial / Michael Kazin ; Dorothy Parker / Catherine Keyser -- 1926, "Fire!" / Carla Kaplan ; Hardboiled / Walter Mosley ; The Book-of-the-Month Club / Joan Shelly Rubin -- 1927, Carl Sandburg and "The American Songbag" / Paul Muldoon ; "Free to develop their faculties" / Jeffrey Rosen -- 1928, Dilsey Gibson goes to church / Werner Sollors ; John Dos Passos / Phoebe Kosman ; The mouse that whistled / Karal Ann Marling -- 1930, "The Silent Enemy" / Micah Treuer ; Grant Wood's "American Gothic" / Sarah Vowell -- 1931, Nevada legalizes gambling / David Thomson -- 1932, Edmund Wilson's "The American jitters" / Anthony Grafton ; Arthur Mill / Andrea Most -- 1932, The River Rouge plant and industrial beauby / John M. …”