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Autore: |
McCaw Neil
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Titolo: |
Adapting detective fiction : crime, Englishness and the TV detectives / / Neil McCaw
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Pubblicazione: | London ; ; New York, : Continuum, 2011 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
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.: | 9910808876603321 |
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