Drawing on a range of disciplinary tools and critical analyses, this unique collection explores interdisciplinary connections between academic and professional crime writing, historical studies of crime and 'true crime', and screen portrayals of crime and criminals from the 1850s to the present day.The essays are based on murder and exploitation, outlaws, gunfighters, private eyes, bounty hunters, serial killers, gangsters, and the police procedural, andexplore representations of race, gender, sexuality and memory.International in its coverage, thebook includes analysesof well-known writers such asMaj Sj wall, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, James Ellroy and Elizabeth Ruth. INDICE: 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 theGangster Musical Art Melodrama; .M.Nicholls.In the Private Eye: Private Spacein the Noir Detective Movie; .B.Nicol.'Death of the Author': Maj Sj wall and Per Wahl 's Police Procedurals; .C.Beyer.'Betty Short and I Go Back': James Ellroy and the Metanarrative of the Black Dahlia Case; .S.Powell.Index.
- ISBN: 978-0-230-35398-5
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 192
- Fecha Publicación: 09/05/2012
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Desconocido