Cross-Cultural Connections in Crime Fictions (eBook)
XI, 180 Seiten
Palgrave Macmillan UK (Verlag)
978-1-137-01676-8 (ISBN)
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
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.
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
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
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 9.5.2012 |
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Zusatzinfo | XI, 180 p. |
Verlagsort | London |
Sprache | englisch |
Themenwelt | Literatur |
Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
Schlagworte | Arthur Conan Doyle • Fiction • Film |
ISBN-10 | 1-137-01676-0 / 1137016760 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-137-01676-8 / 9781137016768 |
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