犯罪小説の文化横断的連関性 Cross-Cultural Connections in Crime Fictions

Miller, Vivien (EDT)/ Oakley, Helen (EDT)

Palgrave Macmillan（2012/06発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 180 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780230353985
• DDC分類 809.3872

基本説明

This collection of ten original essays forges new interdisciplinary connections between crime fiction and film, encompassing British, Swedish, American and Canadian contexts.

Full Description

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.

Contents

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