Detecting Canada : Essays on Canadian Crime Fiction, Television, and Film /

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This book-length study of crime writing in Canada, Detecting Canada, contains thirteen essays on many of Canada's most popular crime writers, including Peter Robinson, Giles Blunt, Gail Bowen, Thomas King, Michael Slade, Margaret Atwood, and Anthony Bidulka. Genres examined range from the well-...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Sloniowski, Jeannette, 1946- (Editor ), Rose, Marilyn J (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Waterloo, Ontario, Canada : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, [2014]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Detective and mystery stories, Canadian.
Crime on television.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Criminalite à la television > Histoire et critique.
Roman policier canadien > Histoire et critique.
Crime on television > History and criticism.
Detective and mystery stories, Canadian > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Detective and mystery stories, Canadian
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Ntroduction / Jeanette Sloniowski and Marilyn Rose
  • HISTORY ANDTHEORY. 1. Coca-Colonialists Write Back: Localizing the Global in Canadian Crime Fiction / Beryl Langer
  • 2. Canadian Criminous Writing in English / David Skene-Melvin.
  • ESSAYS ON FICTION. 3. Canadian Psycho: Genre, Nation, and Colonial Violence in Michael Slade's Gothic RCMP Procedurals / Brian Johnson
  • 4. Northern Procedures: Policing the Nation in Giles Blunt's "The Delicate Storm" / Manina Jones
  • 5. Revisioning the Dick: Reading Thomas King's Thumps DreadfulWater Mysteries / Jennifer Andrews and Priscilla L. Walton
  • 6. Generic Play & Gender Trouble in Peter Robinson's "In a Dry Season" / Jeanette Sloniowski
  • 7. A Colder Kind of Gender Politics: Intersections of Feminism & Detection in Gail Bowen's Joanne Kilbourn Series / Pamela Bedore
  • 8. Queer Eye for the Private Eye: Homonationalism & the Regulation of Queer Difference in Anthony Bidulka's Russell Quant Mystery Series / Peter Balogh
  • 9. Under/Cover: Strategies of Detection & Evasion in Margaret Atwood's "Alias Grace" / Marilyn Rose.
  • ESSAYS ON TELEVISION. 10. Televising Toronto in the 1960s: "Wojeck" and the Urban Crime Genre / Sara A. Matheson
  • 11. North of Quality? Quality Television and the Suburban Crimeworld of "Durham County" / Lindsay Steenberg and Yvonne Tasker
  • 12. Mounties and Metaphysics: The Detective in Canadian Film and Television / Patricia Gruben.

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