{"id":23492,"date":"2011-05-28T18:26:57","date_gmt":"2011-05-28T22:26:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fryeblog.blog.lib.mcmaster.ca\/?p=23492"},"modified":"2011-05-28T18:26:57","modified_gmt":"2011-05-28T22:26:57","slug":"frye-at-the-movies-detective-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/2011\/05\/28\/frye-at-the-movies-detective-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Frye at the Movies: “Detective Story”"},"content":{"rendered":"

httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=O8NnjbzsTP8<\/a><\/p>\n

Frye refers to this movie in his 1952 diary as a “sardonic masterpiece.” Detective stories generally were a source of almost guiltless pleasure for him (even putting aside their value in studying popular and primitive archetypes), and he made reference to them often. However, this personal account in his 1942 diary of reading them is easily the most charming:<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t think that I have either a highbrow or a lowbrow pose about detective stories, but I don\u2019t really quite understand why I like reading them.\u00a0 I read them partly for the sake of the overtones.\u00a0 I\u2019m not a connoisseur of them: I can never guess what the hell\u2019s up when the detective pulls out a watch and shouts: \u201cMy God, we may yet be in time!\u201d, shoves the narrator and half the country\u2019s police force into a taxi, dashes madly across town and finds the girl I\u2019d placidly thought was the heroine all equipped with a blunt instrument & an animal snarl.\u00a0 I\u2019m always led by the nose up the garden path in search of a false clue, and I never notice inconsistencies.\u00a0 And I always get let down when I find out who dun it.\u00a0 As I say, I like overtones.\u00a0 A good style, some traces of wit & characterization, a sense of atmosphere, and a lot of the professional intricacies of the game can go to hell.\u00a0 Yet I want a good novel in that particular convention & no other.\u00a0 The answer is, I think, that I\u2019m naturally a slow & reflective reader, & make copious marginalia.\u00a0 In the detective story I live for a moment in the pure present: I\u2019m passively pulled along from stimulus to stimulus, and, ignorant & idle as that doubtless is, I\u2019m fascinated by it.\u00a0 Yet I seldom finish without disappointment. (CW 8, 15)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=NXAJamX_9a4&feature=related<\/a><\/p>\n

Part 2<\/p>\n

httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=JXoxktUZYg0&feature=related<\/a><\/p>\n

Part 3<\/p>\n

httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FPJlGZhkGSo&feature=related<\/a><\/p>\n

Part 4<\/p>\n

httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=x9C6jbxHx6Y&feature=related<\/a><\/p>\n

Part 5<\/p>\n

httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=HKuazlSIg44&feature=related<\/a><\/p>\n

Part 6<\/p>\n

httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=HJQrRudqh8Q&feature=related<\/a><\/p>\n

Part 7<\/p>\n

httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=P2S59kvEI9I&feature=related<\/a><\/p>\n

Part 8<\/p>\n

httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MrjXYn7zf4c&feature=related<\/a><\/p>\n

Part 9<\/p>\n

httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=m_s6dxb_11g&feature=related<\/a><\/p>\n

Part 10<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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