Cross-Cultural Connections in Crime Fictions

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Introduction

   • Vivien Miller, Helen Oakley

   Pages 1-6

3. From the Locked Room to the Globe: Space in Crime Fiction

   • David Schmid

   Pages 7-23

4. The Fact and Fiction of Darwinism: The Representation of Race, Ethnicity and Imperialism in the Sherlock Holmes Stories of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

   • Hilary A. Goldsmith

   Pages 24-39

5. “You’re not so special, Mr. Ford”: The Quest for Criminal Celebrity

   • George Green, Lee Horsley

   Pages 40-58

6. Hard-Boiled Screwball: Genre and Gender in the Crime Fiction of Janet Evanovich

   • Caroline Robinson

   Pages 59-75

7. “A Wanted Man”: Transgender as Outlaw in Elizabeth Ruth’s Smoke

   • Susan E. Billingham

   Pages 76-90

8. Dissecting the Darkness of Dexter

   • Helen Oakley

   Pages 91-105

9. The Machine Gun in the Violin Case: Martin Scorsese, Mean Streets and the Gangster Musical Art Melodrama

   • Mark Nicholls

   Pages 106-120

10. In the Private Eye: Private Space in the Noir Detective Movie

    • Bran Nicol

    Pages 121-140

11. “Death of the Author”: Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö’s Police Procedurals

    • Charlotte Beyer

    Pages 141-159

12. “Betty Short and I Go Back”: James Ellroy and the Metanarrative of the Black Dahlia Case

    • Steven Powell

    Pages 160-176

13. Back Matter

    Pages 177-180

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A collection of ten original essays forging new interdisciplinary connections between crime fiction and film, encompassing British, Swedish, American and Canadian contexts. The authors explore representations of race, gender, sexuality and memory, and challenge traditional categorisations of academic and professional crime writing.

• Arthur Conan Doyle
• fiction
• film

'A wide-ranging collection of essays on crime fiction, television and film which makes valuable new contributions to its subject area. Its crossing of cultural boundaries and a particular focus on issues of spatial representation, generic hybridity and gender mark it as a welcome addition to its field.'

- Peter Messent, University of Nottingham, UK

• University of Nottingham, UK

  Vivien Miller

• The Open University, UK

  Helen Oakley

CHARLOTTE BEYER Senior lecturer in English Literature at the University of Gloucestershire, UK SUSAN BILLINGHAM Associate Professor in Canadian Studies at the University of Nottingham, UK HILARY GOLDSMITH Instrumental Music Teacher by profession GEORGE GREEN teaches in the Department of English and Creative Writing at Lancaster University, UK LEE HORSLEY has taught in the Department of English & Creative Writing at Lancaster University, UK, since 1974 BRAN NICOL Reader in Modern & Contemporary Literature at the University of Portsmouth, UK MARK NICHOLLS Senior lecturer in Cinema Studies at the University of Melbourne, Australia STEVEN POWELL PhD candidate at the University of Liverpool, UK CAROLINE ROBINSON Independent scholar with an interest in contemporary crime genres DAVID SCHMID Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University at Buffalo in New York, USA

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