The Hard-Boiled Detective Novel: It’s Explanation and Effects

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The Hard-Boiled Detective Novel: It’s Explanation and Effects
The hard-boiled detective novel is a piece of America’s identity. There are many element of the hard-boiled detective novel that has also set the stage for the progression of American culture. In the late 1920’s, hard-boiled detective novels gave America a release from the depression-era life that they would endure for years to come. The genre progressed in the nineteen thirties, and solidified the archetypes and tone that make the genre great. Later, the hard-boiled detective novel would give way to other cultural mainstays, like film and comic books. The hard boiled detective novel is something that is as much a part of American history as any other genre, and is a distinct...

.....p, real language and tone to revolutionize popular culture. Through this, film and comics were furthered and expanded upon to include a sense of the hard-boiled detective novel and to adapt its guidelines to new audiences who could take valuable lessons from the genre. Every movement informs the next, but the hard-boiled detective novel is something that is intrinsic to the American identity- both drawing from American history and informing it.
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