True Detective
Critical Essays on the HBO Series
Published on 6. December 2017
Book
Hardback
214 pages
978-1-4985-6694-0 (ISBN)
Description
Throughout its limited run beginning in 2014, the HBO series True Detective has presented viewers with unique takes on the American crime drama on television, marked by literary and cinematic influences, heavyweight performances, and an experimental approach to the genre. At times celebrated and opposed, the series has ignited a range of ongoing critical conversations about representations of gender, depictions of place, and narrative forms. True Detective: Critical Essays on the HBO Series includes a breadth of scholarly chapters that cross disciplinary boundaries, interrogate a range of topics, and ultimately promise to further contribute to critical debates surrounding the series.
Reviews / Votes
Samuel and Stoddart have cultivated a strong collection of conversations surrounding a popular yet often polarizing television series. The first season of True Detective attained wide critical acclaim, whereas the second was panned by viewers and critics alike. However, this anthology impressively complicates the dominant readings of each season (and, in so doing, reclaims meaning and value to the maligned second season) with analyses of the show's representations of gender, space, and morality, offered through literary, cinematic, narrative, thematic, and philosophical lenses. It is a great text for any scholar interested in examining a recent popular culture phenomenon through multiple perspectives. -- Todd M. Sodano, St. John Fisher College In True Detective: Critical Essays on the HBO Series, scholars explore an exemplar of the preeminent narrative form of our time. These essays sensitively probe issues of genre, performance, and adaptation, revealing True Detective's animation by traditions from the ancient and medieval, to William Faulkner, and Southern Gothic. -- William Mooney, Fashion Institute of TechnologyMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
3 b/w illustrations;
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
508 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4985-6694-0 (9781498566940)
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Critical Essays on the Hbo Series
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True Detective
Critical Essays on the Hbo Series
E-Book
12/2017
1st Edition
Lexington Books
€94.99
Available for download
Persons
Scott F. Stoddart is associate professor of English and dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Saint Peter's University.
Michael Samuel is doctoral researcher at the University of Leeds.
Michael Samuel is doctoral researcher at the University of Leeds.
Content
Contents
Acknowledgments
Notes on References
Chapter One: Introduction
Michael Samuel and Scott F. Stoddart
Section I
Chapter Two: Finding "Sanctuary" in True Detective Season One: Faulkner and the Gender Politics of Southern Gothic Crime Drama
Cameron Williams Crawford
Chapter Three: Petrochemical Families: Landscape and Lineage in True Detective
Helen Williams
Chapter Four: Traces of Melodrama in True Detective's narrative strategies
Kathryn Jensen and Tony Prichard
Section II
Chapter Five: "I Welcome Judgment:" Revenge and Redemption in True Detective
Alexis M. Egan
Chapter Six: The Secret Fate of All Pessimism: Time, Determinism, and Eternal Recurrence in True Detective Season One
Rick Elmore
Chapter Seven: "I contemplate the moment in the garden:" Medieval Sainthood in True Detective
Jessica Walker
Section III
Chapter Eight: (Un)Bury Me: The Fate of Pizzolatto's Antigone
Jennifer Crumley and Amy Stavola
Chapter Nine: Names so deep and Names so true-Identity Crises and Greek Tragedy in True Detective Season Two
Isabell Grosse
Chapter Ten: Oedipus in Vinci: Parental Dynamics in True Detective Season Two
Ryan Twomey
Episode Guide
Cast List
About the Contributors
Acknowledgments
Notes on References
Chapter One: Introduction
Michael Samuel and Scott F. Stoddart
Section I
Chapter Two: Finding "Sanctuary" in True Detective Season One: Faulkner and the Gender Politics of Southern Gothic Crime Drama
Cameron Williams Crawford
Chapter Three: Petrochemical Families: Landscape and Lineage in True Detective
Helen Williams
Chapter Four: Traces of Melodrama in True Detective's narrative strategies
Kathryn Jensen and Tony Prichard
Section II
Chapter Five: "I Welcome Judgment:" Revenge and Redemption in True Detective
Alexis M. Egan
Chapter Six: The Secret Fate of All Pessimism: Time, Determinism, and Eternal Recurrence in True Detective Season One
Rick Elmore
Chapter Seven: "I contemplate the moment in the garden:" Medieval Sainthood in True Detective
Jessica Walker
Section III
Chapter Eight: (Un)Bury Me: The Fate of Pizzolatto's Antigone
Jennifer Crumley and Amy Stavola
Chapter Nine: Names so deep and Names so true-Identity Crises and Greek Tragedy in True Detective Season Two
Isabell Grosse
Chapter Ten: Oedipus in Vinci: Parental Dynamics in True Detective Season Two
Ryan Twomey
Episode Guide
Cast List
About the Contributors