The millennial detective [electronic resource] : essays on trends in crime fiction, film and television, 1990-2010 / edited by Malcah Effron ; foreword by Stephen Knight.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., Inc., 2011.Description: viii, 192 pSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 823/.0872090914 23
LOC classification:
  • PS374.D4 M55 2011eb
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Contents:
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 Potentialand the Interface between Hard-Boiled Detective Fiction and Chick Lit / 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 / 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 & Serial Protagonists: An Interview with Ian Rankin / Sian Harris and Malcah Effron.
Summary: "International in scope and varied in its theoretical approaches, this collection of ten 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 twentieth century"--Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 Potentialand the Interface between Hard-Boiled Detective Fiction and Chick Lit / 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 / 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 & Serial Protagonists: An Interview with Ian Rankin / Sian Harris and Malcah Effron.

"International in scope and varied in its theoretical approaches, this collection of ten 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 twentieth century"--Provided by publisher.

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.

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