Detecting women gender and the Hollywood detective film - Gates, Philippa (State University of New York Press, 2011)
Includes bibliographical references and index
Includes filmography
The crime lab : gender and the detective genre. Introduction : the case -- Detecting criticism : theorizing gender and the detective genre -- The rise and demise of the classical female detective, 1929 to 1950. Movie modernization : the film industry and working women in the Depression -- Detecting as a hobby : amateur and professional detectives in the 1930s -- Sob sisters don't cry : the girl reporter as detective in the 1930s -- In name only : the transformation of the female detective in the 1940s -- The maritorious melodrama : the female detective in 1940s film noir -- From crime-fighter to crime scene investigator, 1970 to today. Femme might makes right : the 1970s blaxploitation vigilante crime-fighter -- Detecting the bounds of the law : the female lawyer thriller of the 1980s -- Detecting identity : from investigative thrillers to crime scene investigators