Miranda / Anderson / Pezzotti Serial Crime Fiction

Dying for More
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-137-48369-0
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 254 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Crime Files

Serial Crime Fiction is the first book to focus explicitly on the complexities of crime fiction seriality. Covering definitions and development of the serial form, implications of the setting, and marketing of the series, it studies authors such as Doyle, Sayers, Paretsky, Ellroy, Marklund, Camilleri, Borges, across print, film and television.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Miranda, Carolina

Anderson, Jean

Pezzotti, Barbara

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction

PART I: THE SUM OF ITS PARTS: WHAT MAKES A SERIES?

2. Stephen Burroughs, Serial Offender; Jon Blandford

3. The Myth of the Gentleman Burglar: Models of Serialization and Temporality in Early Twentieth-Century Crime Fiction; Federico Pagello

4. '' ''More than the Sum of its Parts: Borges, Bioy Casares and the Phenomenon of the Séptimo Círculo Collection '' ''; Carolina Miranda

5. Serializing Sullivan: Vian/Sullivan, the Série noire, and the effet de collection; Clara Sitbon, Marie-Laure Vuaille-Barcan and Alistair Rolls

6. Armed and Dangerous: Le Poulpe and the Formalization of French Noir; Pim Higginson

7. Acts of Violence: The World War II Veteran Private-Eye Movie as an Ideological Crime Series; Nick Heffernan

8. The Structure of the Whole: James Ellroy '' ''s LA Quartet Series; Steven Powell

PART II: AS TIME GOES BY: PROGRESSING THE SERIES

9. The Maturity of Lord Peter Wimsey and Authorial Innovation Within a Series; Brittain Bright

10. Series Fiction and the Challenge of Ideology: the Feminism of Sara Paretsky; Sabine Vanacker

11. From Conflicted Mother to Lone Avenger: Transformations of the Woman Journalist Detective in Liza Marklund '' ''s Crime Series; Kerstin Bergman

12. It '' ''s All One Book. It '' ''s All One World: George Pelecanos '' ''s Washington DC; Eduardo Obradó

13. Serializing Evil: David Peace and the Formulæ of Crime Fiction; Nicoletta Vallorani

14. The Flavour of the Street: The Factory Series by Derek Raymond; Anna Pasolini

15. Andrea Camilleri '' ''s Imaginary Vigàta, Between Formula and Innovation; Barbara Pezzotti

PART III: TRANPOSITION, IMITATION, INNOVATION

16. Sherlock Holmes in Hollywood: Film Series, Genre and Masculinities; Maysaa Jaber

17. Murder, Mayhem and Clever Branding: the Stunning Success of J.B. Fletcher; Rachel Franks and Donna Lee Brien

18. From flâneur to traceur?: Léo Malet and Cara Black Construct the PI '' ''s Paris; JeanAnderson

19. The City Lives in Me: Connectivity and Embeddedness in Australia '' ''s Peter Temple and Shane Maloney; Carolyn Beasley

20. '' ''She '' ''s pretty hardboiled, huh? '' '' Rewriting the Classic Detective in Veronica Mars; Taryn Norman

21. '' ''Exspecta Inexspectata '' '': The Rise of the Supernatural in Hybrid; Detective Series for Young Readers; Lucy Andrew

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Jean Anderson, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Lucy Andrew, Cardiff University, UK
Carolyn Beasley, Swinburne University of Technology, in Victoria
Kerstin Bergman, Lund University, Sweden
Jon Blandford, Bellarmine University, USA
Donna Lee Brien, Central Queensland University, Australia
Brittain Bright, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK
Rachel Franks, The University of Newcastle, Australia

Nick Heffernan, University of Nottingham, UK
Pim Higginson, Bryn Mawr College, USA
Maysaa Jaber, University of Baghdad, Iraq
Carolina Miranda, Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand
Taryn Norman, University of Tennessee, USA
Eduardo Obradó, Universidad de Cantabria, Spain
Federico Pagello, Queen's University Belfast, UK
Anna Pasolini, University of Milan, Italy
Barbara Pezzotti, Australasian Centre for Italian Studies, Australia
Steven Powell, Independent Scholar, UK
Alistair Rolls, University of Newcastle, Australia
Clara Sitbon, University of Newcastle, Australia
Nicoletta Vallorani, University of Milan, Italy
Sabine Vanacker, University of Hull, UK
Marie-Laure Vuaille-Barcan, University of Newcastle, Australia