The Defective Detective in the Pulps Format: Paperback
Language: English
Published by University of Chicago press, 1983
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- Title
- The Defective Detective in the Pulps Format: Paperback
- Author
- Edited by Gary Hoppenstand and Ray B. Browne
- Publisher
- University of Chicago press
- Publication year
- 1983
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- New
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- Soft cover
- Language
- English
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- 0879722363
- ISBN 13
- 9780879722364
The world of the defective detective was a strange one. Continuing the motif of the mythological hero, this unique detective type emerged in the 1930s in a very imperfect and threatened society. The stories reprinted in this volume reveal just how widely the genre ranged during the Depression.
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Ray B. Browne is professor emeritus of Popular Culture Studies at Bowling Green State University. Through some sixty books and a variety of initiatives-including the founding of the Journal of Popular Culture, the Popular Culture Association, and the Popular Press itself-he has played an instrumental role in making popular culture a topic of serious inquiry.
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