The Female Investigator in Literature, Film, And Popular Culture
Publisher: McFarland & Company; McFarland & Co.
Published: November 27, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780786426546
Subjects: Films, cinema; Novels, other prose & writers; Popular culture; Television; Women's studies; Horror tales, English; Film & Video - History & Criticism; Women authors; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; History and criticism; Mystery & Detective Fiction; Feminist; Women's Studies - General; Literature & Fiction / Literature; Popular Culture - General; Detective and mystery stories, English; English fiction
Description: In this book the author examines how women detectives are portrayed in film, in literature and on TV. Chapters examine the portrayal of female investigators in each of these four genres: the Gothic novel, the lesbian detective novel, television, and film.