Adapting detective fiction : crime, Englishness and the TV detectives /
Adapting Detective Fiction is a study of specific instances of adaptation, with close readings of both the originating sources and adapted texts. But it is also more than this. It is a study of the politics of representation in the last decades of the twentieth century, and the role television detec...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; New York :
Continuum,
©2011.
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Colección: | Continuum literary studies.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | Adapting Detective Fiction is a study of specific instances of adaptation, with close readings of both the originating sources and adapted texts. But it is also more than this. It is a study of the politics of representation in the last decades of the twentieth century, and the role television detective fiction plays in this. It is about the mutually-informing interrelation of cultural texts and political rhetoric, about the connection between the popular-cultural depiction of crime and criminality and how we come to understand human behaviour and culpability; most of all, it is a detailed con. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (200 pages) |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 174-188) and index. |
ISBN: | 9781441156624 1441156623 1282912615 9781282912618 9781441186171 1441186174 9786612912610 6612912618 |