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02367aam a2200349 i 4500 001 62D822D826B811E994CCD44997128E48 003 SILO 005 20190202010039 008 180808s2018 mdu b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2018036046 020 $a 1498565808 020 $a 9781498565806 035 $a (OCoLC)1057241713 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d BDX $d YDX $d OCLCO $d UKMGB $d OCLCF $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PS3555 L6274 Z53 2018 100 1 $a Ashman, Nathan, $e author. 245 10 $a James Ellroy and voyeur fiction / $c by Nathan Ashman. 264 1 $a Lanham : $b Lexington Books, $c [2018] 300 $a xxix, 145 pages ; $c 24 cm 520 $a "This book addresses the voyeuristic dimensions of James Ellroy's fiction, one of the most significant yet underexplored areas of his work. Focusing exclusively on The L.A. Quartet and The Underworld U.S.A. Trilogy, it critically reflects upon a vivid preoccupation with eyes, visual culture, and visual technologies that permeates Ellroy's writings" -- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Introduction: "Cam-era": James Ellroy, voyeurism and contemporary culture -- "Cherchez la femme": voyeurism, narrative desire and the female body in the Black Dahlia -- "They'll believe anything we can get on the screen": cinematising the city in the Big Nowhere and L.A. Confidential -- "Feast your eyes": white jazz, voyeurism and the crisis of ocularcentrism -- "Window peeping history": voyeurising the past in American Tabloid and the Cold Six Thousand -- "You can't peep and prowl paper the rest of your life": Blood's a rover, public privacy and the voyeuristic pleasures of the archive -- Conclusion: connecting THEN and NOW: Perfidia, LAPD 53 and the value of Ellroy's "voyeur fiction". 600 10 $a Ellroy, James, $d 1948- $x Criticism and interpretation. 600 17 $a Ellroy, James, $d 1948- $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00132453 650 0 $a Voyeurism in literature. 650 0 $a Visual perception in literature. 776 08 $i Online version: $a Ashman, Nathan, author. $t James Ellroy and voyeur fiction $d Lanham : Lexington Books, [2018] $z 9781498565813 $w (DLC) 2018049111 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20190305054632.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=62D822D826B811E994CCD44997128E48 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search