CRIM 4654 Lecture 12: Lecture 12
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There is a fine line between the hero and villain. These stories are ideologically conservative even when the heroes may reveal widespread corruption when solving the crime. This is conservative because this corruption remains unchallenged; corruption always remains part of the story. To remove it, would make it less distinctive as a sub-genre. Always set in the modern urban city. The streets are always represented as dangerous. Sin city: nighttime, stylistic of black and white and red. Alienating urban setting characterized by frequent violence: alienation is not a personal choice; it is something that is attached to urban setting there is very little trust to be formed. Hard boiled detective are modern versions of cowboys where the city seems off; The police who patrol the streets are corrupt. They are an extension of frontier stories that have been told through the genre of western: appearance vs. reality.
