Contemporary American Crime Fiction
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| Author | : Hans Bertens |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 242 |
| Release | : 2001-10-25 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0230508316 |
This highly accessible, lively and informative study gives a clear and comprehensive overview of recent trends in American crime fiction. Building on a discussion of the immediate predecessors, Bertens and D'haen focus on the work of popular and award-winning authors of the last fifteen years. Particular attention is given to writers who have reworked established conventions and explored new directions, especially women and those from ethnic minorities.
| Author | : Woody Haut |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 292 |
| Release | : 1999 |
| Genre | : Education |
| ISBN | : |
Neon Noir, the follow-up to Woody Haut's highly regarded Pulp Culture, brings the story of American crime fiction and film uptodate. From the Kennedy assassination to the Vietnam War and Watergate, through Reaganomics to Irangate and Whitewater, Neon Noir is a roller-coaster ride through the American nightmare. Haut investigates the dark side of America through the work of crime writers such as James Ellroy, Elmore Leonard, Walter Mosley, James Lee Burke, Lawrence Block, James Sallis, George Pelecanos, Charles Willeford, Jerome Charyn, Sara Paretsky, Vicki Hendricks, KC Constantine, George V Higgins and James Crumley. Mapping the fissures and scars of America's psychogeography, its morally ambiguous shadowlands, Neon Noir also considers the difference between past and present hardboilers, the impact of war and journalism on noirists, the portrayal of cities, the aesthetics of crime fiction, and the changing relationship between the books and the films. Like Pulp Culture, Neon Noir is set to become the reference book on its subject.
| Author | : Richard B. Schwartz |
| Publisher | : University of Missouri Press |
| Total Pages | : 188 |
| Release | : 2002 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0826263097 |
Owners of mystery bookshops will tell you that there are several sorts of buyers: those who purchase on impulse or whim; genre addicts who buy paperbacks by the week and by the armful; and those who have caught up on canonical texts and regularly buy new novels by select authors in hardcover. Richard B. Schwartz belongs in the last group, with his own list of approximately seventy favorite writers. Nice and Noir: Contemporary American Crime Fiction explores the work of these writers, building upon a reading of almost seven hundred novels from the 1980s and 1990s. By looking at recurring themes in these mysteries, Schwartz offers readers new ways to approach the works in relation to contemporary cultural concerns.
| Author | : Andrew Pepper |
| Publisher | : Psychology Press |
| Total Pages | : 192 |
| Release | : 2000 |
| Genre | : Literary Collections |
| ISBN | : 9781579583521 |
As America's ethnic and racial character undergoes explosive transformation, its crime fictions trace, contest and celebrate the changes.The Contemporary American Crime Novelis an exciting book that offers a comprehensive review of recent developments in American crime fiction, exploring America's dynamic, fragmented multicultural landscape and how it has transformed the codes and conventions of the crime novel. Featured authors include James Ellroy, James Lee Burke, Sara Paretsky, Barbara Wilson, Chester Himes, Walter Mosley, Faye Kellerman, Alex Abella, and Chang-Rae Lee.
| Author | : Michael Ashley |
| Publisher | : Constable |
| Total Pages | : 804 |
| Release | : 2002 |
| Genre | : Characters and characteristics in literature |
| ISBN | : |
A reference and overview of the genre of crime fiction, primarily covering the 1950s onwards, although major earlier writers, such as Agatha Christie and Raymond Chandler, also have entries.
| Author | : Catherine Ross Nickerson |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 207 |
| Release | : 2010-07-08 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0521136067 |
This Companion examines the range of American crime fiction from execution sermons of the Colonial era to television programmes like The Sopranos.
| Author | : Charlotte Beyer |
| Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 220 |
| Release | : 2021-03 |
| Genre | : American fiction |
| ISBN | : 9781527564060 |
This unique and timely book presents nine compelling essays on contemporary crime fiction, bringing innovative and fresh perspectives to the analysis of this most popular and vibrant literary genre. Investigating contemporary crime fiction and the critical debates surrounding its reception and production, the introductory chapter sets the scene for the chaptersâ (TM) analyses of distinct crime fiction topics, themes and authors. These topics include the experimental detective narrative, race and ethnicity, historical crime fiction, domestic noir, feminism and crime, environmental crime, and the poetics of place. Authors examined here range from Ian Rankin, Gillian Flynn, Val McDermid, Denise Mina, Robert Galbraith, Nancy Bilyeau, and Martha Grimes, to Tana French, Dale Furutani and J.G. Ballard, to name but a few. Informed by the latest critical debates and theoretical perspectives in the field, this volume presents an invaluable source of information and criticism on crime fiction for students, researchers and academics alike.
| Author | : S. Powell |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 641 |
| Release | : 2012-08-07 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1137031662 |
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 ideal introduction to crime fiction for anyone who enjoys this fascinating genre.
| Author | : Charlotte Beyer |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 229 |
| Release | : 2018-07-18 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 3319906089 |
More than perhaps any other genre, crime fiction invites debate over the role of popular fiction in English studies. This book offers lively original essays on teaching crime fiction written by experienced British and international scholar teachers, providing vital insight into this diverse genre through a series of compelling subjects. Taking its starting-point in pedagogical reflections and classroom experiences, the book explores methods for teaching students to develop their own critical perspectives as crime fiction critics, the impact of feminism, postcolonialism, and ecocriticism on crime fiction, crime fiction and film, the crime short story, postgraduate perspectives, and more.
| Author | : Don Carpenter |
| Publisher | : New York Review of Books |
| Total Pages | : 337 |
| Release | : 2010-06-23 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1590173902 |
A hardboiled novel about life in the American underground, from the pool halls of Portland to the cells of San Quentin. Simply one of the finest books ever written about being down on your luck. Don Carpenter’s Hard Rain Falling is a tough-as-nails account of being down and out, but never down for good—a Dostoyevskian tale of crime, punishment, and the pursuit of an ever-elusive redemption. The novel follows the adventures of Jack Levitt, an orphaned teenager living off his wits in the fleabag hotels and seedy pool halls of Portland, Oregon. Jack befriends Billy Lancing, a young black runaway and pool hustler extraordinaire. A heist gone wrong gets Jack sent to reform school, from which he emerges embittered by abuse and solitary confinement. In the meantime Billy has joined the middle class—married, fathered a son, acquired a business and a mistress. But neither Jack nor Billy can escape their troubled pasts, and they will meet again in San Quentin before their strange double drama comes to a violent and revelatory end.
