1. I've been reading some Raymond Chandler lately & it clarified something that is maybe obvious to everyone else but had never occurred to me: that pervasive police corruption was a necessary precondition for creation of hard-boiled detective novel as a genre.
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9. So: the police legitimacy crisis of 1920/1930s created a raft of genres from hard-boiled detective to superhero. I suppose the question is whether the current crisis will create new genres or cause these older ones to return to their origins.
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Part of the core Superman fantasy is that he's literally incorruptible as well. Later on the genres start blending more with Batman and others, but Superman is very specifically *reliable*
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I sometimes wonder how many people are aware that Ironman is but a variation of Scarlet Pimpernel and his stalwart defense of monstrously decadent autocracy.
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I was waiting for this. Masked heroes make a lot more sense if the police are corrupt/incompetent. Look at how many early super heroes has secret identities that would know who was guilty, but had gotten away with it (reporters, cops, wealthy friends of the police commissioner)
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