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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Genres that focus on escapism or confrontation of current problems? Both? Some publisher is wracking his brain trying to figure it out I'm sure.
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every mayor will fall on their sword before acknowledging police aren't saints. cops are the beating heart of local government and the raison d'être of most of their non-insurance public spending, so police legitimacy is tied to state legitimacy far closer than in the 20's/30's.
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The superhero genre is simply a post aristocratic version of chivalric romance. Foundations were laid by Hugo and Dumas.
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It’s not for nothing that the TV version of The Watchmen included corrupt cops prominently in both time periods.
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Dick Tracy comes from this period too, though, so someone was trying to restore the reputation of the cops.
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This analysis may or may not hold water, but how can one write a long thread about Raymond Chandler without once mentioning the fact that regardless of genre Chandler was one of the greatest wordsmiths ever to put ink to paper...
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Last 9 words of your tweet - perfect! But OP ain't talking about skill at wordsmithing. There's an interesting crack here, that even in the 40's there was an idea that the cops weren't entirely out and about for justice. You probly noticed Marlow really didn't like cops much.
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Have you read Inventing the Public Enemy, by David Ruth? If not, it would give you lots more fodder for this line of thinking.
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