Detecting the South in Fiction, Film, and Television - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Detecting the South in Fiction, Film, and Television write by Deborah E. Barker. This book was released on 2019-10-23. Detecting the South in Fiction, Film, and Television available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Detecting the South in Fiction, Film, & Television, edited by Deborah E. Barker and Theresa Starkey, examines the often-overlooked and undervalued impact of the U.S. South on the origins and development of the detective genre and film noir. This wide-ranging collection engages with ongoing discussions about genre, gender, social justice, critical race theory, popular culture, cinema, and mass media. Focusing on the South, these essays uncover three frequently interrelated themes: the acknowledgment of race as it relates to slavery, segregation, and discrimination; the role of land as a source of income, an ecologically threatened space, or a place of seclusion; and the continued presence of the southern gothic in recurring elements such as dilapidated plantation houses, swamps, family secrets, and the occult. Twenty-two critical essays probe how southern detective narratives intersect with popular genre forms such as neo-noir, hard-boiled fiction, the dark thriller, suburban noir, amateur sleuths, journalist detectives, and television police procedurals. Alongside essays by scholars, Detecting the South in Fiction, Film, and Television presents pieces by authors of detective and crime fiction, including Megan Abbott and Ace Atkins, who address the extent to which the South and its artistic traditions influenced their own works. By considering the diversity of authors and characters associated with the genre, this accessible collection provides an overdue examination of the historical, political, and aesthetic contexts out of which the southern detective narrative emerged and continues to evolve.
Clues: A Journal of Detection, Vol. 38, No. 2 (Fall 2020)
Clues: A Journal of Detection, Vol. 38, No. 2 (Fall 2020) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Clues: A Journal of Detection, Vol. 38, No. 2 (Fall 2020) write by Elizabeth Foxwell. This book was released on 2020-08-11. Clues: A Journal of Detection, Vol. 38, No. 2 (Fall 2020) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. For over two decades, Clues has included the best scholarship on mystery and detective fiction. With a combination of academic essays and nonfiction book reviews, it covers all aspects of mystery and detective fiction material in print, television and movies. As the only American scholarly journal on mystery fiction, Clues is essential reading for literature and film students and researchers; popular culture aficionados; librarians; and mystery authors, fans and critics around the globe.
Clues: A Journal of Detection, Vol. 42, No. 1 (Spring 2024)
Clues: A Journal of Detection, Vol. 42, No. 1 (Spring 2024) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Clues: A Journal of Detection, Vol. 42, No. 1 (Spring 2024) write by Caroline Reitz. This book was released on 2024-05-17. Clues: A Journal of Detection, Vol. 42, No. 1 (Spring 2024) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. For over two decades, Clues has included the best scholarship on mystery and detective fiction. With a combination of academic essays and nonfiction book reviews, it covers all aspects of mystery and detective fiction material in print, television and movies. As the only American scholarly journal on mystery fiction, Clues is essential reading for literature and film students and researchers; popular culture aficionados; librarians; and mystery authors, fans and critics around the globe.
Eudora Welty and Mystery
Eudora Welty and Mystery - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Eudora Welty and Mystery write by Jacob Agner. This book was released on 2022-12-28. Eudora Welty and Mystery available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Contributions by Jacob Agner, Sarah Gilbreath Ford, Katie Berry Frye, Michael Kreyling, Andrew B. Leiter, Rebecca Mark, Suzanne Marrs, Tom Nolan, Michael Pickard, Harriet Pollack, and Victoria Richard Eudora Welty’s ingenious play with readers’ expectations made her a cunning writer, a paramount modernist, a short story artist of the first rank, and a remarkable literary innovator. In her signature puzzle-texts, she habitually engages with familiar genres and then delights readers with her transformations and nonfulfillment of conventions. Eudora Welty and Mystery: Hidden in Plain Sight reveals how often that play is with mystery, crime, and detective fiction genres, popular fiction forms often condescended to in literary studies, but unabashedly beloved by Welty throughout her lifetime. Put another way, Welty often creates her stories’ secrets by both evoking and displacing crime fiction conventions. Instead of restoring order with a culminating reveal, her story-puzzles characteristically allow mystery to linger and thicken. The mystery pursued becomes mystery elsewhere. The essays in this collection shift attention from narratives, characters, and plots as they have previously been understood by unearthing enigmas hidden within those constructions. Some of these new readings continue Welty’s investigation of hegemonic whiteness and southern narratives of race—outlining these in chalk as outright crime stories. Other essays show how Welty anticipated the regendering of the form now so characteristic of contemporary women mystery writers. Her tender and widely ranging personal correspondence with the hard-boiled American crime writer Ross Macdonald is also discussed. Together these essays make the case that across her career, Eudora Welty was arguably one of the genre’s greatest double agents, and, to apply the titles of Macdonald’s novels to her inventiveness with the form, she is its “underground woman,” its unexpected “sleeping beauty.”
The Routledge Handbook of Crime Fiction and Ecology
The Routledge Handbook of Crime Fiction and Ecology - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Routledge Handbook of Crime Fiction and Ecology write by Nathan Ashman. This book was released on 2023-10-27. The Routledge Handbook of Crime Fiction and Ecology available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Routledge Handbook of Crime Fiction and Ecology is the first comprehensive examination of crime fiction and ecocriticism. Across 33 innovative chapters from leading international scholars, this Handbook considers an emergent field of contemporary crime narratives that are actively responding to a diverse assemblage of global environmental concerns, whilst also opening up ‘classic’ crime fictions and writers to new ecocritical perspectives. Rigorously engaged with cutting-edge critical trends, it places the familiar staples of crime fiction scholarship – from thematic to formal approaches – in conversation with a number of urgent ecological theories and ideas, covering subjects such as environmental security, environmental justice, slow violence, ecofeminism and animal studies. The Routledge Handbook of Crime Fiction and Ecology is an essential introduction to this new and dynamic research field for both students and scholars alike.
