Adapting detective fiction [[electronic resource] ] : crime, Englishness and the TV detectives / / Neil McCaw

• Autore: McCaw Neil
• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York, : Continuum, 2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (209 p.)
• Disciplina: 791.456556
• Soggetto topico: Detective and mystery stories, English
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Adapting detective fiction
• ISBN: 1-282-91261-5; 9786612912610; 1-4411-5662-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910785330303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Continuum literary studies.