Tous les livres numériques de la collection "Crime Files" - Palgrave Macmillan

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British Crime Film Barry Forshaw Presenting a social history of British crime film, this book focuses on the strategies used in order to address more radical notions surrounding class, politics, sex, delinquency, violence and censorship. Spanning post-war crime cinema to present-day "Mockney"... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2012-09-20 Collection : Crime Files PDF 52,74 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
100 American Crime Writers S. Powell 100 American Crime Writers features discussion and analysis of the lives of crime writers and their key works, examining the developments in American crime writing from the Golden Age to hardboiled detective fiction. This study is essential to scholars and an... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2012-08-07 Collection : Crime Files PDF 94,94 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Death in a Cold Climate B. Forshaw Barry Forshaw, the UK's principal crime fiction expert, presents a celebration and analysis of the Scandinavian crime genre, from Sjöwall and Wahlöö's Martin Beck series through Henning Mankell's Wallander to Stieg Larsson's demolition of the Swedish Social Democratic... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2012-01-11 Collection : Crime Files PDF 52,74 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Hollywood's Detectives F. Mason The study of Hollywood detectives has often overlooked the B-Movie mystery series in favour of hard-boiled film. Hollywood's Detectives redresses this oversight by examining key detective series of the 1930s and 1940s to explore their contributions to the detective... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2011-12-15 Collection : Crime Files PDF 52,74 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Narratives of Enclosure in Detective Fiction M. Cook The locked room mystery is one of the iconic creations of popular fiction. Michael Cook's critical study reveals how this archetypal form of the puzzle story has had a significant effect in shaping the immensely popular genre of detective fiction. The book includes... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2011-10-12 Collection : Crime Files PDF 52,74 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Masculinity, Crime and Self-Defence in Victorian Literature E. Godfrey Now in paperback, this book considers crime fighting from the perspective of the civilian city-goer, from the mid-Victorian garotting panics to 1914. It charts the shift from the use of body armour to the adoption of exotic martial arts through the works of popular... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2010-12-03 Collection : Crime Files PDF 52,74 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Women Writers and Detectives in Nineteenth-Century Crime Fiction L. Sussex This book is a study of the 'mothers' of the mystery genre. Traditionally the invention of crime writing has been ascribed to Poe, Wilkie Collins and Conan Doyle, but they had formidable women rivals, whose work has been until recently largely forgotten. The purpose of... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2010-07-16 Collection : Crime Files PDF 52,74 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
French and American Noir Alistair Rolls , Deborah Walker A longstanding misconception surrounding the term French noir suggests that the post-war French thriller and film noir were a development of, or response to, a pre-existing American tradition. This book challenges this misconception, examining the complexity of this... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2009-08-21 Collection : Crime Files PDF 52,74 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
A Counter-History of Crime Fiction Maurizio Ascari This book takes a look at the evolution of crime fiction. Considering 'criminography' as a system of inter-related sub-genres, it explores the connections between modes of literature such as revenge tragedies, the gothic and anarchist fiction, while taking into account... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2007-09-05 Collection : Crime Files PDF 94,94 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Agatha Christie: Power and Illusion R.A. York This study shows how she sought to reconcile her attachment to the Victorian past with her recognition of a new society that undermined established order and in doing so gave more opportunities to women, confused class-boundaries, extended tolerance, allowed the cult of... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2007-07-31 Collection : Crime Files PDF 52,74 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Deviance in Contemporary Crime Fiction C. Gregoriou This book explores the three aspects of deviance that contemporary crime fiction manipulates: linguistic, social, and generic. Gregoriou conducts case studies into crime series by James Patterson, Michael Connelly and Patricia Cornwell, and investigates the way in which... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2007-01-30 Collection : Crime Files PDF 52,74 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Agatha Christie M. Makinen Christie's books depict women as adventurous, independent figures who renegotiate sexual relationships along more equal lines. Women are also allowed to disrupt society and yet the texts refuse to see them as double deviant because of their femininity. This book... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2006-10-10 Collection : Crime Files PDF 52,74 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Masquerade, Crime and Fiction L. Peach This study of crime and masquerade in fiction focuses upon the criminal as a 'performer'. Through stimulating discussions of a wide range of criminal types, Peach argues for the importance of novels that have been neglected. The book integrates incisive literary and... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2006-09-05 Collection : Crime Files PDF 52,74 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
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