"Herewith the Clues is a jaunt through the history of the Crime Dossiers, a form of literature as mystery game--developed in the interwar period--where players solved puzzles much in the way that a detective in the 1920s might have solved a crime using forensics. With origins in the whodunit my...

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Hauptverfasser:	Basar, Shumon 1974- (VerfasserIn), Herman, Laura (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser:	Vereecken, Boy 1982- (DesignerIn, HerausgeberIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Berlin Sternberg Press [2018] Vienna Kunsthalle Wien
Schlagworte:	Vereecken, Boy > 1982- Kriminalgeschichte Kunst Literatur Künstlerbuch Detective and mystery stories / History and criticism Detective and mystery stories Criticism, interpretation, etc
Zusammenfassung:	"Herewith the Clues is a jaunt through the history of the Crime Dossiers, a form of literature as mystery game--developed in the interwar period--where players solved puzzles much in the way that a detective in the 1920s might have solved a crime using forensics. With origins in the whodunit mystery genre (whose roots go as far back as a tale in One Thousand and One Nights), this style of parlor game proliferated. The mass-produced games came in the form of binders, books, suitcases, or boxes containing crime-scene evidence (and literary red herrings), each piece of evidence itself a kind of riddle. One could see these as not only an entirely new manifestation of gamified literature, but game playing itself evolving: storytelling as a riddle-solving game acted in the flesh, rather than existing solely in the minds of author and reader. Herewith the Clues continues Boy Vereecken's research into mass-market literary culture, which began with Signature Strengths (2016). The volume includes two text contributions: a contemporary take on the whodunit novel by Shumon Basar, followed by a tour of the history of the Crime Dossiers by Laura Herman. The book is illustrated with a photo series from Antoine Begon who has unpacked and photographed the pieces of evidence that comprise Crime Dossiers such as File on Rufus Ray and Murder Off Miami"--Publisher's website
Beschreibung:	Title from cover "Herewith the Clues" is the second installment of a trilogy edited and designed by Boy Vereecken and published by Sternberg Press. The first installment, "Signature Strengths", was published in 2016
Beschreibung:	40 Seiten Illustrationen 27 cm
ISBN:	9783956794421 3956794427