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02773aam a2200409Ii 4500 001 472D6078462211E9A3F20F6897128E48 003 SILO 005 20190314012734 008 180719t20182018sz a b 001 0 eng d 010 $a 2018956150 020 $a 9783319990125 020 $a 3319990128 035 $a (OCoLC)1044832277 040 $a YDX $b eng $c YDX $d UKMGB $d BDX $d VA@ $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d BNG $d SILO 050 4 $a PN3448.D4 $b C46 2018 082 04 $a 809.3/872 $2 23 100 1 $a Close, Glen S. $q (Glen Steven), $e author. 245 10 $a Female corpses in crime fiction : $b a transatlantic perspective / $c Glen S. Close. 264 1 $a Cham, Switzerland : $b Palgrave Macmillan, $c [2018] 300 $a xii, 261 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 22 cm. 490 1 $a Crime files 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-255) and index. 520 8 $a "This book examines the central significance of sexualized female corpses in modern and contemporary Hispanic and Anglophone crime fiction. Beginning with the foundational detective fictions of the nineteenth century, it draws from diverse subgenres to describe a transatlantic tradition of necropornography characterized by lascivious interest in female cadavers, dissection, morgues, femicide, and snuff movies. Hard-boiled and police procedural classics from the U.S. and the U.K. are juxtaposed with texts by established Spanish and Spanish American genre masters and with obscure works that prefigure the contemporary transmedial boom in corpse-centered fictions. The rhetoric and aesthetics of necropornographic crime fiction are related to those of popular crime journalism and forensic-science television dramas. This study argues that crime fiction has long fixated disproportionately on the corpses of beautiful young white women and continues to treat their deaths and autopsies as occasions for male visual pleasure, male subjective self-affirmation and male homosocial bonding."--Back cover. 650 0 $a Detective and mystery stories, English $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Detective and mystery stories, Spanish $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Dead in literature. 650 0 $a Women in literature. 650 7 $a Dead in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00888420 650 7 $a Detective and mystery stories, English. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00891515 650 7 $a Detective and mystery stories, Spanish. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00891569 650 7 $a Women in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01177912 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 776 08 $i ebook version : $z 9783319990132 830 0 $a Crime files series. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191116021045.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=472D6078462211E9A3F20F6897128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search