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1 online resource |
| Contents |
Acknowledgements -- Note on Contributors -- Introduction; V. Miller & H. Oakley -- From the Locked Room to the Globe: Space in Crime Fiction; D. Schmid -- The Fact and Fiction of Darwinism: The Representation of Race, Ethnicity and Imperialism in the Sherlock Holmes Stories of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; H.A. Goldsmith -- 'You're not so special, Mr. Ford': the Quest for Criminal Celebrity; G. Green & L. Horsley -- Hard-Boiled Screwball: Genre and Gender in the Crime Fiction of Janet Evanovich; C. Robinson -- 'A Wanted Man': Transgender as Outlaw in Elizabeth Ruth's Smoke; S.E. Billingham -- Dissecting the Darkness of Dexter; H. Oakley -- The Machine Gun in the Violin Case: Martin Scorsese, Mean Streets and the Gangster Musical Art Melodrama; M. Nicholls -- In the Private Eye: Private Space in the Noir Detective Movie; B. Nicol -- 'Death of the Author': Maj Sj̲wall and Per Wahḻ̲'s Police Procedurals; C. Beyer -- 'Betty Short and I Go Back': James Ellroy and the Metanarrative of the Black Dahlia Case; S. Powell -- Index |
| Summary |
Drawing on a range of disciplinary tools and critical analyses, this unique collection explores interdisciplinary connections between academic and professional crime writing, historical studies of crime and 'true crime', and screen portrayals of crime and criminals from the 1850s to the present day. The essays are based on murder and exploitation, outlaws, gunfighters, private eyes, bounty hunters, serial killers, gangsters, and the police procedural, andexplore representations of race, gender, sexuality and memory. International in its coverage, thebook includes analysesof well-known writers such asMaj Sj̲wall, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, James Ellroy and Elizabeth Ruth |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Subject |
Detective and mystery stories -- History and criticism
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Detective and mystery stories -- Cross-cultural studies
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Crime in literature.
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Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers.
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Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900.
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Literary studies: from c 1900.
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Film: styles & genres.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Mystery & Detective.
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Literature.
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Crime in literature
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Detective and mystery stories
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Cross-cultural studies
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Miller, Vivien
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Oakley, Helen, 1972-
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| ISBN |
9781137016768 |
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1137016760 |
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