An edition of The millennial detective
(2011)
The millennial detective
essays on trends in crime fiction, film and television, 1990-2010
by Malcah Effron
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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"--Provided by publisher.
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English Detective and mystery stories, Detectives in literature, Detective and mystery television programs, History and criticism, Crime in literature, Detective and mystery films, American Detective and mystery stories, English fiction, American fiction, Detective and mystery stories, history and criticism, American fiction, history and criticism, 20th century, American fiction, history and criticism, 21st century, English fiction, history and criticism, 20th century, English fiction, history and criticism, 21st century, Detective and mystery films, history and criticismTimes
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The millennial detective: essays on trends in crime fiction, film and television, 1990-2010
2011, McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
in English
0786458518 9780786458516
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Table of Contents
Introduction / by Malcah Effron
Crime Fiction and the Politics of Place: The Post-9/11 Sense of Place in Sara Paretsky and Ian Rankin / P. M. Newton
A Normal Pathology? Patricia Cornwell's Third-Person Novels / Beth Head
Inheriting the Mantle: Wallander and Daughter / Susan Massey
"A Visitor for the Dead": Adam Dalgliesh as a Serial Detective / Sabine Vanacker
Transforming Genres: Subversive Potentialand the Interface between Hard-Boiled Detective Fiction and Chick Lit / Sonja Altnoeder
The Poetics of Deviance and the Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time / Christiana Gregoriou
"A Natural Instinct for Forensics": Trace Evidence and Embodied Gazes in The Bone Collector / Lindsay Steenberg
"Post-Modern or Post-Mortem" Murder as a Self-consuming Artifact in Red Dragon / David Levente Palatinus
Revisiting Paranoia: The "Witch Hunts" in James Ellroy's The Big Nowhere and Walter Mosley's A Red Death / Maureen Sunderland
A Detective Series with Love Interruptions? The Heteronormative Detective Couple in Contemporary Crime Fiction / Malcah Effron
Detective Fiction & Serial Protagonists: An Interview with Ian Rankin / Sian Harris and Malcah Effron.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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