Cross-Cultural Connections in Crime Fictions [electronic resource] /
Miller, V.editor.
Oakley, H.editor.
A collection of ten original essays forging new interdisciplinary connections between crime fiction and film, encompassing British, Swedish, American and Canadian contexts. The authors explore representations of race, gender, sexuality and memory, and challenge traditional categorisations of academic and professional crime writing.
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Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; 1 From the Locked Room to the Globe: Space in Crime Fiction; 2 The Fact and Fiction of Darwinism: The Representation of Race, Ethnicity and Imperialism in the Sherlock Holmes Stories of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; 3 "You're not so special, Mr. Ford": The Quest for Criminal Celebrity; 4 Hard-Boiled Screwball: Genre and Gender in the Crime Fiction of Janet Evanovich; 5 "A Wanted Man": Transgender as Outlaw in Elizabeth Ruth's Smoke; 6 Dissecting the Darkness of Dexter
7 The Machine Gun in the Violin Case: Martin Scorsese, Mean Streets and the Gangster Musical Art Melodrama8 In the Private Eye: Private Space in the Noir Detective Movie; 9 "Death of the Author": Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö's Police Procedurals; 10 "Betty Short and I Go Back": James Ellroy and the Metanarrative of the Black Dahlia Case; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
A collection of ten original essays forging new interdisciplinary connections between crime fiction and film, encompassing British, Swedish, American and Canadian contexts. The authors explore representations of race, gender, sexuality and memory, and challenge traditional categorisations of academic and professional crime writing.
Motion pictures—History.
Literature, Modern—20th century.
Fiction.
Motion pictures and television.
Film genres.
Film History.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
Fiction.
Screen Studies.
Genre.