essays on trends in crime fiction, film and television, 1990-2010
Published:
c2011
Publisher:
McFarland, Jefferson, N.C
International in scope and varied in its theoretical approaches, this collection of ten critical essays examines the prevailing trends in recent crime fiction. Of particular interest are shifting, and increasingly globalized, conceptions of crime, as...
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International in scope and varied in its theoretical approaches, this collection of ten critical essays examines the prevailing trends in recent crime fiction. Of particular interest are shifting, and increasingly globalized, conceptions of crime, as well as the genre's response to technological, legal, and social changes at the end of the twentieth century. Employing critical tools new to crime fiction studies, the essays also gesture toward a future for genre scholarship
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Cover; Table of Contents; Foreword by Stephen Knight; Preface by Malcah Effron; Introduction by Malcah Effron; Crime Fiction and the Politics of Place; A Normal Pathology? Patricia Cornwell's Third-Person Novels; Inheriting the Mantle; "A Visitor for the Dead"; Transforming Genres; The Poetics of Deviance in The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time; "A Natural Instinct for Forensics"; "Post-Modern or Post-Mortem?" Murder as a Self-Consuming Artifact in Red Dragon; Revisiting Paranoia
A Detective Series with Love Interruptions? The Heteronormative Detective Couple in Contemporary Crime FictionDetective Fiction and Serial Protagonists; About the Contributors; Index;
