{"id":234421,"date":"2018-02-20T23:50:30","date_gmt":"2018-02-20T23:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/writemyessayfree.com\/the-use-of-wisecracking-in-hammett-chandler-parks-shaf-and-polanskis-chinatown\/"},"modified":"2018-10-24T09:06:05","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T09:06:05","slug":"the-use-of-wisecracking-in-hammett-chandler-parks-shaf-and-polanskis-chinatown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/the-use-of-wisecracking-in-hammett-chandler-parks-shaf-and-polanskis-chinatown\/","title":{"rendered":"The use of wisecracking in Hammett, Chandler, Parks? Shaf, and Polanski?s Chinatown."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nDescription<br \/>\n1.?Hammett,?The?Maltese?Falcon<br \/>\n2.?Chandler,?The?Big?Sleep<br \/>\n3.?Chandler,?The?Long?Goodbye<br \/>\n4.?Parks,?Shaft.?(movie)<br \/>\n5.?Polanski,?Chinatown?(movie)<br \/>\nIn?Hammett,?Chandler,?Parks??Shaf,?and?Polanski?s?Chinatown,?among?many?others,??cracking?wise??generally<br \/>\nappears?as?a?form?of?masculine?dominance;?there?s?almost?always?the?sense?the?wisecracker?is?hoping?to?pick?a<br \/>\nfight?with?the?person?he?s?insulting.?Gould?s?Chandler?and?Bridges??Lebowski?are?vastly?less?aggressive<br \/>\ncharacters,?yet?they?also?display?a?tendency?to?crack?wise.?What?is?the?function?of?wisecracking?in?terms?of<br \/>\ngender?politics,?of?masculinity,?of?the?revelation?of?a?character?s?(and?hence,?perhaps,?the?film?s)?worldview?in<br \/>\nthese?later?portrayals??What?is?the?benefit?to?the?later?directors?of?keeping?this?aspect?of?the?hardboiled?detective<br \/>\nwhen?they?abandon?so?many?others??Your?argument?will?almost?certainly?stand?or?fall?on?the?strength?of?your<br \/>\nclose?readings?of?particular?wisecracks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Description 1.?Hammett,?The?Maltese?Falcon 2.?Chandler,?The?Big?Sleep 3.?Chandler,?The?Long?Goodbye 4.?Parks,?Shaft.?(movie) 5.?Polanski,?Chinatown?(movie) In?Hammett,?Chandler,?Parks??Shaf,?and?Polanski?s?Chinatown,?among?many?others,??cracking?wise??generally appears?as?a?form?of?masculine?dominance;?there?s?almost?always?the?sense?the?wisecracker?is?hoping?to?pick?a fight?with?the?person?he?s?insulting.?Gould?s?Chandler?and?Bridges??Lebowski?are?vastly?less?aggressive characters,?yet?they?also?display?a?tendency?to?crack?wise.?What?is?the?function?of?wisecracking?in?terms?of gender?politics,?of?masculinity,?of?the?revelation?of?a?character?s?(and?hence,?perhaps,?the?film?s)?worldview?in these?later?portrayals??What?is?the?benefit?to?the?later?directors?of?keeping?this?aspect?of?the?hardboiled?detective when?they?abandon?so?many?others??Your?argument?will?almost?certainly?stand?or?fall?on?the?strength?of?your close?readings?of?particular?wisecracks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234421\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}