The Millennial Detective
Essays on Trends in Crime Fiction, Film and Television, 1990-2010
Published on 3. October 2011
Book
Paperback/Softback
200 pages
978-0-7864-5851-6 (ISBN)
Description
International in scope and varied in its theoretical approaches, this collection of ten new 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 20th century. Employing critical tools new to crime-fiction studies, the essays also gesture toward a future for genre scholarship.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Jefferson, NC
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Interest Age: From 18 years
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
notes, bibliographies, index
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 12 mm
Weight
336 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7864-5851-6 (9780786458516)
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Person
Malcah Effron is a Lecturer in the Writing, Rhetoric, and Professional Communication program at MIT. She has published diverse articles on detective fiction and is a peer reviewer for The Journal of Popular Culture. Additionally, she is one of the co-founders of the International Crime Studies Network. This is her first book.
Content
Table of Contents
Foreword by Stephen Knight
Preface by Malcah Effron
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 Potential and the Interface between Hard- Boiled Detective Fiction and Chick
(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<BR>
(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 and Serial Protagonists: An Interview with Ian Rankin
(SIAN HARRIS and MALCAH EFFRON)
About the Contributors
Index
Foreword by Stephen Knight
Preface by Malcah Effron
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 Potential and the Interface between Hard- Boiled Detective Fiction and Chick
(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<BR>
(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 and Serial Protagonists: An Interview with Ian Rankin
(SIAN HARRIS and MALCAH EFFRON)
About the Contributors
Index