The connection made between the current “good guy with a gun” and hard-boiled media is very thin here. Making bold claims about vast genres require vast research – the kind Anita Sarkeesian does....
The connection made between the current “good guy with a gun” and hard-boiled media is very thin here. Making bold claims about vast genres require vast research – the kind Anita Sarkeesian does. Besides, the article doesn’t differentiate hard-boiled from noir. The first has hot-headed trigger happy protagonists, the later features sleazy detectives with a pessimistic outlook on life. A sometimes subtle but important distinction.
The connection made between the current “good guy with a gun” and hard-boiled media is very thin here. Making bold claims about vast genres require vast research – the kind Anita Sarkeesian does. Besides, the article doesn’t differentiate hard-boiled from noir. The first has hot-headed trigger happy protagonists, the later features sleazy detectives with a pessimistic outlook on life. A sometimes subtle but important distinction.