Cross-cultural connections in crime fictions
By: edited by Vivien Miller, Helen Oakley
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 180
ISBN-13: 9780230353985
Subjects: Detective and mystery stories; History and criticism; Crime in literature; Detective and mystery films; PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / General; LITERARY CRITICISM / Mystery & Detective; Crime in motion pictures; PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism
Description: " 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 categorizations of academic and professional crime writing"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:  Acknowledgements; title: Note on Contributors; title: Introduction / V. Miller & H. Oakley; title: From the Locked Room to the Globe: Space in Crime Fiction / D. Schmid; title: 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; title: 'You're not so special, Mr. Ford': the Quest for Criminal Celebrity / G. Green & L. Horsley; title: Hard-Boiled Screwball: Genre and Gender in the Crime Fiction of Janet Evanovich /  C. Robinson; title: 'A Wanted Man': Transgender as Outlaw in Elizabeth Ruth's Smoke / S. E. Billingham; title: Dissecting the Darkness of Dexter /  H. Oakley; title: The Machine Gun in the Violin Case: Martin Scorsese, Mean Streets and the Gangster Musical Art Melodrama / M. Nicholls; title: In the Private Eye: Private Space in the Noir Detective Movie / B. Nicol; title: 'Death of the Author': Maj  Sjöwall and Per  Wahlöö's police procedurals /  C. Beyer; title: 'Betty Short and I Go Back': James Ellroy and the Metanarrative of the Black Dahlia Case / S.Powell.