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Cross-Cultural Connections in Crime Fictions


Cross-Cultural Connections in Crime Fictions



von: V. Miller, H. Oakley

53,49 €

Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan
Format: PDF
Veröffentl.: 09.05.2012
ISBN/EAN: 9781137016768
Sprache: englisch

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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.
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 Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö's Police Procedurals; C.Beyer 'Betty Short and I Go Back': James Ellroy and the Metanarrative of the Black Dahlia Case; S.Powell Index
CHARLOTTE BEYER Senior lecturer in English Literature at the University of Gloucestershire, UK
SUSAN BILLINGHAM Associate Professor in Canadian Studies at the University of Nottingham, UK
HILARY GOLDSMITH Instrumental Music Teacher by profession
GEORGE GREEN teaches in the Department of English and Creative Writing at Lancaster University, UK
LEE HORSLEY has taught in the Department of English & Creative Writing at Lancaster University, UK, since 1974
BRAN NICOL Reader in Modern & Contemporary Literature at the University of Portsmouth, UK
MARK NICHOLLS Senior lecturer in Cinema Studies at the University of Melbourne, Australia
STEVEN POWELL PhD candidate at the University of Liverpool, UK
CAROLINE ROBINSON Independent scholar with an interest in contemporary crime genres
DAVID SCHMID Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University at Buffalo in New York, USA

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