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.

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Information

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan

Year

2012

ISBN

9781137016768

Topic

Media & Performing Arts

Subtopic

Film History & Criticism

Cover
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
1 From the Locked Room to the Globe: Space in Crime Fiction
2 The Fact and Fiction of Darwinism: The Representation of Race, Ethnicity and Imperialism in the Sherlock Holmes Stories of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
3 “You’re not so special, Mr. Ford”: The Quest for Criminal Celebrity
4 Hard-Boiled Screwball: Genre and Gender in the Crime Fiction of Janet Evanovich
5 “A Wanted Man”: Transgender as Outlaw in Elizabeth Ruth’s Smoke
6 Dissecting the Darkness of Dexter
7 The Machine Gun in the Violin Case: Martin Scorsese, Mean Streets and the Gangster Musical Art Melodrama
8 In the Private Eye: Private Space in the Noir Detective Movie
9 “Death of the Author”: Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö’s Police Procedurals
10 “Betty Short and I Go Back”: James Ellroy and the Metanarrative of the Black Dahlia Case
Index