The Contemporary American Crime Novel
Title | The Contemporary American Crime Novel PDF eBook |
Author | Andrew Pepper |
Publisher | Psychology Press |
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.
Contemporary American Crime Fiction
Title | Contemporary American Crime Fiction PDF eBook |
Author | Hans Bertens |
Publisher | Springer |
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.
Neon Noir
Title | Neon Noir PDF eBook |
Author | Woody Haut |
Publisher | |
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.
Nice and Noir
Title | Nice and Noir PDF eBook |
Author | Richard B. Schwartz |
Publisher | University of Missouri Press |
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.
Criminal Proceedings
Title | Criminal Proceedings PDF eBook |
Author | Peter B. Messent |
Publisher | Pluto Press (UK) |
Pages | 274 |
Release | 1997-04 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN |
An accessible introduction to the concept of culture in Gramsci focusing on the relevance of Gramscia s approach for anthropologists"
This Storm
Title | This Storm PDF eBook |
Author | James Ellroy |
Publisher | Vintage |
Pages | 608 |
Release | 2019-06-04 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0525521739 |
January '42. L.A. reels behind the shock of Pearl Harbor. Local Japanese residents are rounded up and slammed behind bars. Massive thunderstorms hit the city. A body is unearthed in Griffith Park. The cops tag it a routine dead-man job. They're wrong. It's an early-warning signal of Chaos. There's a murderous fire and a gold heist. There's Fifth Column treason on American soil. There are homegrown Nazis, Commies, and race racketeers. It's populism ascendant. There's two dead cops in a dive off the jazz-club strip. And three men and one woman have a hot date with history. Elmer Jackson is a corrupt Vice cop. He's a flesh peddler and a bagman for the L.A. Chief of Police. Hideo Ashida is a crime-lab whiz, lashed by anti-Japanese rage. Dudley Smith is PD hardnose working Army Intelligence. He's gone rogue and gone all-the-way fascist. Joan Conville was born rogue. She's a defrocked Navy lieutenant and a war profiteer to her core. L.A. '42. Homefront madness. Wartime inferno--This Storm is James Ellroy's most audacious novel yet. It is by turns savage, tender, elegiac. It lays bare and celebrates crazed Americans of all stripes. It is a masterpiece.
The Cambridge Companion to American Crime Fiction
Title | The Cambridge Companion to American Crime Fiction PDF eBook |
Author | Catherine Ross Nickerson |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
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.