Sixguns and Society discussion

I can't help but wonder, what if Wright's method were applied to the detective or crime story/movie? Would the results be as lucid? What adaptations would have to be made? Is there an anatomy of the detective story which mimics the anatomy of American history?

What I am suggesting someone (or perhaps all of us interested in detective films) do, is what Wright did. That is to try to 'codify' detective films in terms of their functional forms and then identify which of those forms present cultural myths...then, determine whether changes in society invoked concurrent transitions between those myths.

How can a website devoted to books not be able to produce anyone who can yield me an answer to this inquiry?

Oh wait, I forgot. The internet.

:(

Can't someone at least draw the parallel between McCarthyism and the suspicion-mongering SF movies of the 1950s, aka 'Invasion of the Body Snatchers'?