Murder in Motion
A Sociological Analysis of the City, Transit, and Identity in the Modernist and Postmodernist Thriller
1st Edition
Will be published approx. on 31. March 2026
Book
Hardback
252 pages
978-1-032-78933-0 (ISBN)
Description
This book examines the fictional category of thriller through the lens of city life using exegetical tools drawn from urban sociology to locate the mechanism of suspense and determine the significance of representations of anxiety within metropolitan settings against the backdrop of increased mobility and speed of modern life.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
Academic and Postgraduate
Illustrations
4 s/w Photographien bzw. Rasterbilder, 4 s/w Abbildungen
4 Halftones, black and white; 4 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
502 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-032-78933-0 (9781032789330)
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Michael Mirabile
Murder in Motion
A Sociological Analysis of the City, Transit, and Identity in the Modernist and Postmodernist Thriller
E-Book
05/2026
1st Edition
Routledge
€205.99
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Michael Mirabile
Murder in Motion
A Sociological Analysis of the City, Transit, and Identity in the Modernist and Postmodernist Thriller
E-Book
05/2026
1st Edition
Routledge
€205.99
Available for download
Michael Mirabile
Murder in Motion
A Sociological Analysis of the City, Transit, and Identity in the Modernist and Postmodernist Thriller
Book
approx. 05/2026
1st Edition
Routledge
€60.70
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Person
Michael Mirabile is an Assistant Professor of English at Lewis & Clark College, where he teaches courses in film and post-World War II fiction. He earned a PhD in Comparative Literature from Yale University. He is the author of Edges of Noir: Extreme Filmmaking in the 1960s (2024).
Content
Introduction: The Speed of Suspense 1. Mistaken for No One: Intersubjective Transfers on Trains 2. Suspensions of Identity: Social Acceleration and Character 3. The Child Vanishes: Spatial Enclosure in Aero-Thrillers 4. Remapping Espionage: Don DeLillo's Narratives of Transnational Intrigue 5. New Frontiers for Suspense: Dispatches from the Multiverse Conclusion: The Suspense of Speed