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In "The American Roman Noir," William Marling reads classic hard-boiled fiction and film in the contexts of narrative theories and American social and cultural history. His search for the origins of the dark narratives that emerged during the 1920s and 1930s leads to a sweeping critique of Jazz-Age and Depression-era culture. Integrating economic history, biography, consumer product design, narrative analysis, and film scholarship, Marling makes new connections between events of the 1920s and 1930s and the modes, styles, and genres of their representation.

At the center of Marling's...

Gatekeepers builds on the work of Pierre Bourdieu, Randall Collins, James English, and Mark McGurl,...

William Marling's provocative work analyzes--in specific terms--the impacts of American technology and culture on foreign societies. Marling answers his own question--how -American- is globalization?--with two seemingly contradictory answers: -less than you think- and -more than you know.- Deconstructing the myth of global Americanization, he argues that despite the typically American belief that the United States dominates foreign countries, the practical effects of -Americanization- amount to less than one might suppose.

Critics point to the uneven popularity of McDonalds as a...