Resisting arrest
Subtitle: detective fiction and popular culture
By: Robert A. Rushing.
Publisher: Other Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 191
ISBN-13: 9781590512418
Description: "Resisting Arrest suggests that detective stories have less to do with fulfilling our hidden desires, as psychoanalytic explanations have traditionally asserted, than with purposively thwarting them. Rushing argues that the genre is in fact constituted principally by the promises on which it fails to deliver."--BOOK JACKET.