Adapting detective fiction :: crime, Englishness and the TV detectives /

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 detec...

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1. Verfasser: McCaw, Neil, 1969-
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: London ; New York : Continuum, ©2011.
Schriftenreihe:Continuum literary studies.
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Zusammenfassung: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.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (200 pages)
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 174-188) and index.
ISBN:9781441156624
1441156623
1282912615
9781282912618
9781441186171
1441186174
9786612912610
6612912618

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