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The Detective in American Fiction, Film, and Television, Vol. 63 »
Authors: Jerome H. Delamater, Ruth Prigozy
ISBN-13: 9780313304637, ISBN-10: 0313304637
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Greenwood Publishing Group, Incorporated
Date Published: April 1998
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Author Biography: Jerome H. Delamater
JEROME H. DELAMATER is Professor of Communication at the School of Communication, Hofstra University.
RUTH PRIGOZY is Professor of English at Hofstra University.
Book Synopsis
These essays investigate the detective in American popular culture, from Raymond Chandler's hardboiled Philip Marlowe to TV's maternal Jessica Fletcher.
Booknews
The first seven contributions discuss the American crime writer in the tradition of Raymond Chandler, including other Americans who share his approach or outlook including Elmore Leonard, Chester Himes, Faye Kellerman, Sara Paretsky, and Sue Grafton. The remaining five contributions discuss film and television detectives and crime detection including Polanski's and Dashiell Hammett's poetics. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
Table of Contents
| Preface | ||
| Acknowledgments | ||
| I | Raymond Chandler and American Detective Fiction | 1 |
| 1 | Anne Riordan: Raymond Chandler's Forgotten Heroine | 3 |
| 2 | Order, Error, and the Novels of Raymond Chandler | 13 |
| 3 | Raymond Chandler's Pencil | 27 |
| 4 | Film in Fiction: The Real and the Reel in Elmore Leonard | 35 |
| 5 | "Aggravating the Reader": The Harlem Detective Novels of Chester Himes | 45 |
| 6 | Murdering Traditional Assumptions: The Jewish-American Mystery | 57 |
| 7 | Gender (De)Mystified: Resistance and Recuperation in Hard-Boiled Female Detective Fiction | 71 |
| II | The Detective in Film and Television | 83 |
| 8 | Bending the Bow: The Verdict (1946) and the Hollywood Victorian Detective | 85 |
| 9 | "The Injustice of It All": Polanski's Revision of the Private Eye Genre in Chinatown | 93 |
| 10 | Miller's Crossing: The Poetics of Dashiell Hammett | 103 |
| 11 | The "Very Simplicity of the Thing": Edgar Allan Poe and the Murders He Wrote | 111 |
| 12 | Done to Death?: Formula and Variation in Perry Mason | 123 |
| Index | 131 | |
| About the Editors and Contributors | 137 |
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