Adapting detective fiction [electronic resource]
להגדלת הטקסט להקטנת הטקסט- ספר
Adapting Detective Fiction is a study of specific instances of adaptation, with close readings of both the originating sources and adapted texts. But it is also more than this. It is a study of the politics of representation in the last decades of the twentieth century, and the role television detective fiction plays in this. It is about the mutually-informing interrelation of cultural texts and political rhetoric, about the connection between the popular-cultural depiction of crime and criminality and how we come to understand human behaviour and culpability; most of all, it is a detailed con
כותר |
Adapting detective fiction [electronic resource] : crime, Englishness and the TV detectives / Neil McCaw. |
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מוציא לאור |
London New York : Continuum |
שנה |
2011 |
הערות |
Description based upon print version of record. Includes bibliographical references and index. English |
הערת תוכן ותקציר |
Contents Acknowledgements Chapter 1: Introduction - Adaptation and Cultural History Chapter 2: Sherlock Holmes and the Authenticity of Crime Chapter 3: Miss Marple, Criminality and Englishness Chapter 4: Morse, Heritage and the End of History Chapter 5: Jack Frost and the Condition of England Question Chapter 6: Cadfael, Medievalism and Modern Nationhood Chapter 7: DCI Barnaby and an English Aesthetics of Crime Chapter 8: Conclusion - Detecting the Nation Notes Bibliography Index |
סדרה |
Continuum literary studies |
היקף החומר |
1 online resource (209 p.) |
שפה |
אנגלית |
מספר מערכת |
997010715879505171 |
תצוגת MARC
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