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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: McCaw, Neil, 1969-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York : Continuum, ©2011.
Colección:Continuum literary studies.
Temas:
Detective and mystery stories, English > Television adaptations.
Detective and mystery television programs > Great Britain > History and criticism.
National characteristics, English > History.
Émissions de détective télévisées > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire et critique.
Anglais > Histoire.
PERFORMING ARTS > Television > General.
Detective and mystery stories, English
Detective and mystery television programs
National characteristics, English
Great Britain
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Television adaptations
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Contents; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1: Introduction
  • Adaptation and Cultural History; Chapter 2: Sherlock Holmes and the Authenticity of Crime; Chapter 3: Miss Marple, Criminality and Englishness; Chapter 4: Morse, Heritage and the End of History; Chapter 5: Jack Frost and the Condition of England Question; Chapter 6: Cadfael, Medievalism and Modern Nationhood; Chapter 7: DCI Barnaby and an English Aesthetics of Crime; Chapter 8: Conclusion
  • Detecting the Nation; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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