Raymond Chandler: The Detections of Totality

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Notes

1 Mayo Morrow as quoted in Mike Davis, City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles, 2^nd edn. (London: Verso, 2006), p.17.

2 Chinatown, dir. by Roman Polanski (Paramount Pictures, 1974); Bret Easton Ellis, Less Than Zero (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1985).

3 John Fante, Ask the Dust (New York: Stackpole Sons, 1939); Nathanael West, The Day of the Locust (New York: Random House, 1939); James Frey, Bright Shiny Morning (New York: HarperCollins, 2008); Joan Didion, Play It as It Lays (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1970).

4 Fredric Jameson, ‘On Raymond Chandler’, The Southern Review, 6 (1970), pp.624–650; Fredric Jameson, ‘The Synoptic Chandler’, in Shades of Noir, ed. by Joan Copjek (London: Verso, 1993), pp.33–56.

5 For an extended commentary on this aspect of Jameson’s work, see Daniel Hartley, The Politics of Style: Towards a Marxist Poetics (Leiden: Brill, 2016), pp.170–203.

6 Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form: 20^th Century Dialectical Theories of Literature (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1972); Fredric Jameson, Archaeologies of the Future: The Desire Called Utopia and Other Science Fictions (London: Verso, 2005).