Adapting Detective Fiction
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Adapting Detective Fiction
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Author : Neil McCaw
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2011-01-20
Adapting Detective Fiction written by Neil McCaw and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-01-20 with Literary Criticism categories.
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Adapting Detective Fiction
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Author : Neil McCaw
language : en
Publisher: Continuum
Release Date : 2012-09-24
Adapting Detective Fiction written by Neil McCaw and has been published by Continuum this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-09-24 with Literary Criticism categories.
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 consideration of what the process of adaptation reveals about the shifting nature of the world in which we live. With specific reference to television series such as The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Miss Marple, Inspector Morse, A Touch of Frost, Cadfael, and Midsomer Murders, Adapting Detective Fiction uses adaptation as the basis for an exercise in later twentieth-century cultural history, illustrating the fundamental role detective fictions play in popular beliefs about the nature of crime and Englishness.
Detective Fiction In A Postcolonial And Transnational World
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Author : Dr Marc Singer
language : en
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Release Date : 2013-04-28
Detective Fiction In A Postcolonial And Transnational World written by Dr Marc Singer and has been published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-28 with Literary Criticism categories.
Taking up a neglected area in the study of the crime novel, this collection investigates the growing number of writers who adapt conventions of detective fiction to expose problems of law, ethics, and truth that arise in postcolonial and transnational communities. While detective fiction has been linked to imperialism and constructions of race from its earliest origins, recent developments signal the evolution of the genre into a potent framework for narrating the complexities of identity, citizenship, and justice in a postcolonial world. Among the authors considered are Vikram Chandra, Gabriel García Márquez, Michael Ondaatje, Patrick Chamoiseau, Mario Vargas Llosa, Suki Kim, and Walter Mosley. The essays explore detective stories set in Latin America, the Caribbean, India, and North America, including novels that view the American metropolis from the point of view of Asian American, African American, or Latino characters. Offering ten new and original essays by scholars in the field, this volume highlights the diverse employment of detective fictions internationally, and uncovers important political and historical subtexts of popular crime novels.
Detective Fiction In A Postcolonial And Transnational World
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Author : Nels Pearson
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-04-22
Detective Fiction In A Postcolonial And Transnational World written by Nels Pearson and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-22 with Literary Criticism categories.
Taking up a neglected area in the study of the crime novel, this collection investigates the growing number of writers who adapt conventions of detective fiction to expose problems of law, ethics, and truth that arise in postcolonial and transnational communities. While detective fiction has been linked to imperialism and constructions of race from its earliest origins, recent developments signal the evolution of the genre into a potent framework for narrating the complexities of identity, citizenship, and justice in a postcolonial world. Among the authors considered are Vikram Chandra, Gabriel García Márquez, Michael Ondaatje, Patrick Chamoiseau, Mario Vargas Llosa, Suki Kim, and Walter Mosley. The essays explore detective stories set in Latin America, the Caribbean, India, and North America, including novels that view the American metropolis from the point of view of Asian American, African American, or Latino characters. Offering ten new and original essays by scholars in the field, this volume highlights the diverse employment of detective fictions internationally, and uncovers important political and historical subtexts of popular crime novels.
It S A Print
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Author : William Reynolds
language : en
Publisher: Popular Press
Release Date : 1994
It S A Print written by William Reynolds and has been published by Popular Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Performing Arts categories.
The mechanistic age of the twentieth century has required a mechanized medium for expression: the production of filmdependent from the start on machines such as cameras, projectors, lights, and now more heavily reliant on computers, sensitive films, miniaturization, and sophisticated sound recording devices - has flowered in this century not only as a means of popular entertainment, but as a critically acclaimed art form. These essays highlight true cinematic adaptations as completely different products from films based loosely on the gimmick or plot or character of a certain fiction.
Traces Of Film Jonathan Lethem S Motherless Brooklyn As A Detective Story
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Author : Christoph Bietz
language : de
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Release Date : 2005-07-27
Traces Of Film Jonathan Lethem S Motherless Brooklyn As A Detective Story written by Christoph Bietz and has been published by GRIN Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-07-27 with Literary Collections categories.
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2005 im Fachbereich Amerikanistik - Literatur, Universität zu Köln (Englisches Seminar), Veranstaltung: Word, Image, Sound: New York, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Introduction: Jonathan Lethem’s Detective Story Motherless Brooklyn as a Pretext for a Hollywood Movie Sometimes when we read a book and our imagination is roused by the words we read, we cannot wait for this story being told by a film. We want to see if our imagination fits the ‘real’ pictures on-screen. Having read a novel, there is a quite well- fitting German term that people use when they have liked the story and its characters. The novel has probably had a strong impact on their perception of the plot, and the language seems to have generated longlasting images in their minds. One would – informally – say: ‘This is such a good story. This book is really (now comes the term) filmreif.’ When I read Jonathan Lethem’s Motherless Brooklyn, that was exactly what occurred to me. In this paper, I want to examine theoretically what was a sudden idea, an intuitive feeling in the beginning, and connect film science with literary analysis. The novel can be classified as a detective story as it seems to follow the pattern of a classical detective story, and it shows lots of features that could be read as a prose source for a movie. The narrative, i.e. the story, its subjects or motifs and the way it is told remind one of the typical sujets of the classical Hollywood cinema. It is not uncommon that good (in the sense of critically acclaimed) and successful (in the sense of best-selling) books are ‚translated’ into films – in all kinds of genres and in all kinds of countries. When a film adapts a novel, it has to stand numerous comparisons to its literary predecessor. But whatever the ‘better’ medium for telling a good story is – the history of filmadaptation speaks for the phenomenon of adaptation itself: Many novels turned out to become good and successful films as well. Especially the detective story seems to be made of a pattern that works perfectly for films as well. The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler and The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins are only two examples for successful film adaptations of classical detective stories. What special pattern is this? ...
Mystery Classics On Film
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Author : Ron Miller
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2017-02-06
Mystery Classics On Film written by Ron Miller and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-02-06 with Performing Arts categories.
Watching the screen version of a classic mystery novel can be disappointing. By necessity or artistic license (or possibly just ego) changes are often made by the filmmakers--many of them ineffective or even detrimental. This book focuses on the screen adaptations of 65 famous mysteries and examines how the filmmakers either succeeded or failed in the telling of the story. Interviews with several famous mystery writers are included, with their comments on how filmmakers treated their work.
Her Here
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Author : Amanda Dennis
language : en
Publisher: Bellevue Literary Press
Release Date : 2021-03-09
Her Here written by Amanda Dennis and has been published by Bellevue Literary Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-03-09 with Fiction categories.
An atmospheric debut novel about one lost young woman’s search for another “Spellbinding. . . . Wholly engrossing.” —Washington Post Elena, struggling with memory loss due to a trauma that has unmoored her sense of self, deserts graduate school and a long-term relationship to accept a bizarre proposition from an estranged family friend in Paris: she will search for a young woman, Ella, who went missing six years earlier in Thailand, by rewriting her journals. As she delves deeper into Ella’s story, Elena begins to lose sight of her own identity and drift dangerously toward self-annihilation. Her Here is an existential detective story with a shocking denouement that plumbs the creative and destructive powers of narrative itself. An Iowa Writers’ Workshop graduate and Cambridge Gates Scholar, Amanda Dennis teaches at the American University of Paris. Her Here is her first novel.
Queering Agatha Christie
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Author : J.C Bernthal
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2016-09-02
Queering Agatha Christie written by J.C Bernthal and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-09-02 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book is the first fully theorized queer reading of a Golden Age British crime writer. Agatha Christie was the most commercially successful novelist of the twentieth century, and her fiction remains popular. She created such memorable characters as Hercule Poirot and Jane Marple, and has become synonymous with a nostalgic, conservative tradition of crime fiction. J.C. Bernthal reads Christie through the lens of queer theory, uncovering a playful, alert, and subversive social commentary. After considering Christie’s emergence in a commercial market hostile to her sex, in Queering Agatha Christie Bernthal explores homophobic stereotypes, gender performativity, queer children, and masquerade in key texts published between 1920 and 1952. Christie engaged with debates around human identity in a unique historical period affected by two world wars. The final chapter considers twenty-first century Poirot and Marple adaptations, with visible LGBT characters, and poses the question: might the books be queerer?
The Mysterious Affair At Styles
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Author : Agatha Christie
language : en
Publisher: Aegitas
Release Date : 2023-03-01
The Mysterious Affair At Styles written by Agatha Christie and has been published by Aegitas this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-03-01 with Fiction categories.
The Mysterious Affair at Styles is a classic mystery novel by Agatha Christie, first published in 1920. It is the first book to feature the beloved detective Hercule Poirot, who would go on to become one of the most iconic figures in mystery fiction. The novel follows Poirot as he investigates the death of Emily Inglethorp, a wealthy widow living at Styles Court. The case is further complicated by her will and the shady behavior of some of the people living in the house. The novel is a masterful example of Christie's writing style, which is filled with twists, turns and red herrings. As the reader follows Poirot through the investigation, they are presented with multiple suspects and motives for the crime. Each clue brings them closer to solving the case, but also leads to more questions and theories about what really happened. By the end of the novel, it is clear that Christie has crafted an intricate and engaging mystery that keeps readers guessing until the very last page. The characters in The Mysterious Affair at Styles are just as memorable as the plot. From the eccentric Poirot to the mysterious Alfred Inglethorp and all of his suspicious associates, each character brings something unique to the story. Even minor characters like Mary Cavendish and Cynthia Murdoch help to add depth and intrigue to the narrative. Christie's writing allows readers to connect with each character in a meaningful way, making them feel invested in their fate. Overall, The Mysterious Affair at Styles is an excellent example of classic mystery fiction. With its complex plot and colorful cast of characters, it is easy to see why this book has been so popular for over a century. Whether you're a fan of Agatha Christie or just looking for a good mystery to read, this novel is sure to keep you entertained from start to finish.