Talks on Tap | The Hardboiled Detective from Prohibition to Present

Finding its roots in the early twentieth century during and after prohibition, the Hardboiled Detective has remained an enduring character archetype across storytelling mediums. Tough, cynical, and with an enduring sense of personal justice, the Hardboiled Detective was a lone figure willing to stand up to systemic corruption, be it criminal, social, political, or economic.
Certainly, the persistence of these same institutional woes could account for the continued interest of the Hardboiled Detective hero in fiction, but what has changed and why?
This talk will walk through what made the earliest Hardboiled Detectives tick so that we can uncover the differences in our contemporary antiheroes.
So "shake up your business and pour it"; we have work to do.