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    Women In Detective Fiction

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    Just like the world we live in today, detective fiction is a male dominated genre. Detectives are usually white males who solve dangerous crimes such as murder. If women are involved, they are usually characterized as damsels in distress or femme fatales. It is a man’s world; therefore, it is the sole responsibility of men to be the protectors. For centuries, we have lived in a patriarchal society and this mindset has influenced this genre significantly. Men are deemed better detectives because…

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    “Private Eye” or tough “Hard-boiled” private investigator detective fiction is the classification most dominated by American writers (Mansfield-Kelly 205). One of the founders and innovators of the private investigator is Dashiell Hammett. And is also “The most influential figure in the structuring of hard-boiled detective fiction,” (Mansfield-Kelly 229). He wrote the first tough-guy detective in “The Gutting of Couffignal”, named Continental OP and wrote The Maltese Falcon (Mansfield-Kelly 229)…

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    In the novel The Big Sleep the narrator shows the corruption that surfaces in Los Angeles and the modern world in general. Reveals issues that include wealth and class, exploitation and corruption play out in The Big Sleep. “Sean McCann has argued that hard-boiled fiction is fundamentally a parable about the economic crisis of the day (i.e the Depression and the New Deal). Specifically he argues: The Big Sleep is an allegory of economic predation in which the vernacular energy of the white preys…

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    The Private Detective On the top of high mountain of a town, a detached house surrounded by wide green field which is vintage, its color is very attractive which flash to people eyes make everyone stop for it beauty, it always stand still as a new building although it had been build over 100 years and no one residence there for a very long time and no one ready to step in though specific area as there is a story behind it. People said whoever step in though the area, they will disappear in 3…

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    The Maltese Falcon

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    An easily noticeable example of the hardboiled detective can be seen in Sam Spade, main character in The Maltese Falcon (1941). Sam Spade is seen as this archetype due to his attributes, many of which are consistent with the Noir genre of the time. One such attribute of Spade’s is his ability to reason and think things through. He justifies the means for his actions, which seems meticulously thought out and premeditated. When he meets Mr. Gutman in the room, Sam Spade attempts to take back…

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    Nail Polish

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    polish doesn't have to be a special type of polish. It should be one that you think will look amazing on your Easter eggs. Have a bowl of hardboiled eggs on hand that have had a chance to cool too. Drizzle one of the nail polish colors into the bowl of warm water. It…

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    Detective Genre Doloney

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    Moving on to the appearance of detective genre on the screen, Maloney claims that filming in the early 1900s was rather basic, as of being almost dependent on images and visual elements. The actors had to rely on their costumes, facial expressions and the set to be able to get the message across to the audience. After 1903 and 1906 the film industry flourished, describes Maloney, and new techniques and equipment such as the mobile camera, the close-up and the editing of the films was introduced.…

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    Marcellus Wallace. This film is a member of the neo-noir genre of crime fiction. The film also contains certain noir characteristics such as a pessimistic or nihilistic nature, a McGuffin, and common characters such as a femme fatale, a sap, and a hardboiled leading man. To begin,…

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    derived from the hardboiled crime fiction genre, which rose to popularity during the 1930s and 1940s. Hardboiled fiction introduced readers to the character of the maverick private detective, a man who typically adhered to his own set of unconventional ethics and who always caught the crook and solved the crime. The Killer Inside Me, however, reconstructed this hardened protagonist into a sadistic serial killer, as Susanna Lee, in her article entitled “The Menace of the Post-Hardboiled…

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    Gender In The Big Sleep

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    Part One: Judith Lorber describes gender in a three focused aspects. One of these aspects is gender as a process. What Lorber means when she describes gender as a process is that there are societal expectations depending on the gender you receive at birth. In our society, we have created characteristics and assigned them to specific genders and then expect everyone to agree on those set attributes. There are differences in the behaviors and attitudes that are deemed acceptable or unacceptable…

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