Title Contemporary European crime fiction : representing history and politics / Monica Dall'Asta, Jacques Migozzi, Federico Pagello, Andrew Pepper, editors

Published Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2023

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Description 1 online resource (282 pages) Series Crime files Crime files series. Contents 1. Wheres the Empire? Loss, Geopolitical Agency and Imperial Longing in Jacqueline Winspears Maisie Dobbs Series -- 2. The Fingerprints of Fascism: Phillip Kerrs Bernie Gunther Novels, Nazi Noir, and the Continuing Presence of the Past -- 3. Noir Bearing Gifts: The Greek Shoah and its memory in Philip Kerrs Greeks Bearing Gifts -- 4. Confronting Memories: The Case of Babylon Berlin -- 5. Crime for a Higher Cause: The Baader Meinhof Complex and The Left Wing Gang -- 6. No Future and Spectrality in David Peaces Red Riding Quartet -- 7. The Trails of a Counter-Narrative: The Representation of the Years of Lead in Loriano Macchiavellis Sarti Antonios Series -- 8. Didier Daeninckx, Le roman noir de lHistoire (2019): Dismantling the Tale of French History through Disseminated Micro-Histories -- 9. Revisioning the Past to Build the Democratic Future: The Cases of Italian and Spanish Crime Fiction -- 10. How does Crime Fiction talk politics? Figures of Political Action in Contemporary French Crime Writing -- 11. Shadow Economies: The Financial Crisis and European TV Crime Series -- 12. A Bottom-Up Approach to Transcultural Identities: Petra and Women Detectives in Italian TV Crime Drama -- 13. The Excavation of History and the Quest for Identity in Contemporary Polish Crime Fiction -- 14. Euroscapes: Space, Place and Multi-Level Governance in European Television Crime Series Summary This book represents the first extended consideration of contemporary crime fiction as a European phenomenon. Understanding crime fiction in its broadest sense, as a transmedia practice, and offering unique insights into this practice in specific European countries and as a genuinely transcontinental endeavour, this book argues that the distinctiveness of the form can be found in its related historical and political inquiries. It asks how the genres excavation of Europes history of violence and protest in the twentieth century is informed by contemporary political questions. It also considers how the genres progressive reimagining of new identities forged at the crossroads of ethnicity, gender, and sexuality is offset by its bleaker assessment of the corrosive effects of entrenched social inequalities, political corruption, and state violence. The result is a rich, vibrant collection that shows how crime fiction can help us better understand the complex relationship between Europes past, present, and future. Seven chapters are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com. Monica DallAsta is Professor of Film and Media Studies at the University of Bologna, Italy. She is one of the founding editors of the Women Film Pioneers Project, based at Columbia University, and served as Coordinator of the DETECt-Detecting Transcultural Identity in European Popular Crime Narratives project (201821). Jacques Migozzi is Professor of French Literature at the University of Limoges, France, where he leads the Groupe de recherches sur les Littratures Populaires et Cultures Mdiatiques. He published a synthetical essay in 2005, Boulevards du Populaire, and has edited or co-edited 12 volumes or journal special issues. Federico Pagello teaches Film and Media Studies at the University of Chieti-Pescara, Italy. His research focuses on popular serial narratives and their transmedia and transmedia circulation. His most recent monograph is entitled Quentin Tarantino and Film Theory: Aesthetics and Dialectics in Late Postmodernity (Palgrave 2020). Andrew Pepper is Professor of English at Queens University Belfast, Northern Ireland. He is author of Unwilling Executioner: Crime Fiction and the State (2016) and co-editor of Globalization and the State in Contemporary Crime Fiction (2016) and The Routledge Companion to Crime Fiction (2020) Notes Includes index Print version record Subject Detective and mystery stories -- History and criticism European fiction -- History and criticism Detective and mystery stories European fiction Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book Author Dall'Asta, Monica, editor. Migozzi, Jacques, editor Pagello, Federico, editor Pepper, Andrew, 1969- editor. ISBN 9783031219795 3031219791

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