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Title:

The detective in American fiction, film, and television / edited by Jerome H. Delamater and Ruth Prigozy.

Publisher:

Greenwood Press,

Copyright Date:

1998

Description:

x, 139 p. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Detective and mystery stories, American--History and criticism.
Detective and mystery films--United States--History and criticism.
Detective and mystery television programs--United States--History and criticism.

Other Authors:

Delamater, Jerome.
Prigozy, Ruth,

Notes:

"Prepared under the auspices of Hofstra University." Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Done to death? : formula and variation in Perry Mason / J. Dennis Bounds. Order, error, and the novels of Raymond Chandler / Steven Weisenburger -- Raymond Chandler's pencil / James O. Tate -- Film in fiction : the real and the reel in Elmore Leonard / George Grella -- Aggravating the reader : the Harlem detective novels of Chester Himes / Gary P. Storhoff -- Murdering traditional assumptions : the Jewish-American mystery / Diana Arbin Ben-Merre -- Gender (de)mystified : resistance and recuperation in hard-boiled female detective fiction / Timothy Shuker-Haines and Martha M. Umphrey -- Bending the bow : The verdict (1946) and the Hollywood Victorian detective / Meri-Jane Rochelson -- Injustice of it all : Polanski's revision of the private eye genre in Chinatown / James Maxfield -- Miller's Crossing : the poetics of Dashiell Hammett / Katherine M. Restaino -- "Very simplicity of the thing" : Edgar Allan Poe and the murders he wrote / Jan Whitt -- Done to death? : formula and variation in Perry Mason / J. Dennis Bounds.

Series:

Contributions to the study of popular culture, 0198-9871 ; no. 63

ISBN:

9780313304637 (alk. paper)
0313304637 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)36330838

LCCN:

97001690

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)