Background
Marling, William was born on March 14, 1951 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Son of Henry James and Fern Louise Marling.
(In the American Roman Noir, William Marling reads classic...)
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 1920's and 1930's leads to a sweeping critique of Jazz-Age and Depresssion-era culture, integrating economic history, biography, consumer product design, narative analysis and film scholarship.Taking a closer look at noir classics by Dashiell Hammett, James M. Cain and Raymond Chandler, Marling reads these narratives first as novels, then as films, showing how they helped Americans adapt - for better or worse - to a society driven by economic and technological forces beyond their control. William Marling is an associate professor of English at Case Western Reserve University.
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( In The American Roman Noir, William Marling reads class...)
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 approach is the concept of "prodigality": how narrative represents having, and having had, too much. Never before in the country, he argues, did wealth impinge on the national conscience as in the 1920s, and never was such conscience so sharply rebuked as in the 1930s. What, asks Marling, were the paradigms that explained accumulation and windfall, waste and failure? Marling first establishes a theoretical and historical context for the notion of prodigality. Among the topics he discusses are such watershed events as the trial of Sacco and Vanzetti and the premiere of the first sound movie, The Jazz Singer; technology's alteration of Americans' perceptive and figurative habits; and the shift from synecdochical to metonymical values entailed by a consumer society. Marling then considers six noir classics, relating them to their authors' own lives and to the milieu of prodigality that produced them and which they sought to explain: Dashiell Hammett's Red Harvest and The Maltese Falcon, James M. Cain's The Postman Always Rings Twice and Double Indemnity, and Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep and Farewell My Lovely. Reading these narratives first as novels, then as films, Marling shows how they employed the prodigality fabula's variations and ancillary value systems to help Americans adapt--for better or worse--to a society driven by economic and technological forces beyond their control.
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Marling, William was born on March 14, 1951 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Son of Henry James and Fern Louise Marling.
Bachelor, University Utah, 1973. Master of Arts, University Utah, 1974. Doctor of Philosophy, University California, 1980.
Professor english Case We. Reserve University, Cleveland, since 1980. Visiting professor University Deusto, Bilbao, Spain, 1983—1984, University Vienna, 1993—1994.
Visiting professor American Studies Kobe (Japan) College, 2000—2001. Visiting professor University Düsseldorf'Avignon, France, 2001—2002.
(In the American Roman Noir, William Marling reads classic...)
( In The American Roman Noir, William Marling reads class...)
Married Kaoru Miyashita, December 20, 2002. Married Cindy Robin Skurow, June 11, 1972 (divorced October 23, 2001). Children: Robin, Daniel.