ENGL 324 Lecture Notes - Knife Fight, Urban Renewal, Taxi Dancer
3 Dec 2012
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Mar 17, chancellor day hall, rm 100 ~ 4:30. Spillane and the fbi: satirized, describes the men of the fbi as corporate type people. They"re indistinguishable from people in the street, emasculated, not individuals. The fbi has a file on spillane. The fbi had lots of ties to the criminal element until they were cleaned up by hoover, and then the organization became more professional, and less about physical ruling (more about the collection of sorting of information) Al capone is caught by the irs for tax evasion, not by someone with a gun. This is making the private detective seem more and more antiquated. His job has been superseded in some ways by the scientific policing that was joked about by dinah. He makes fun of the fbi and the congressional hearings that are going on to investigate the mafia syndicates. He references the hearings quite explicitly, and how ineffectual they are. Data management, like working in corporate offices.
