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ADAPTING DETECTIVE FICTION
CRIME, ENGLISHNESS AND THE TV DETECTIVES |
| By: |
Neil McCaw |
| Format: |
Electronic book text |
| List price:
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£16.66 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1441156623 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781441156624 |
| Publisher: |
CONTINUUM PUBLISHING CORPORATION |
| Pub. date: |
1 November, 2010 |
| Series: |
Continuum Literary Studies |
| Pages: |
206 |
| Description: |
With reference to television series such as "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes", "Inspector Morse", and "Midsomer Murders", this title uses adaptation as the basis for an exercise in later twentieth-century cultural history, illustrating the fundamental role detective fictions play in popular beliefs about the nature of crime and Englishness. |
| Synopsis: |
This is an examination of how crime and criminality representations within adapted UK detective dramas impact contemporary definitions of 'Englishness.' "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 consideration of what the process of adaptation reveals about the shifting nature of the world in which we live.With specific reference to television series such as "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes", "Miss Marple", "Inspector Morse", "A Touch of Frost", "Cadfael", and "Midsomer Murders", "Adapting Detective Fiction" uses adaptation as the basis for an exercise in later twentieth-century cultural history, illustrating the fundamental role detective fictions play in popular beliefs about the nature of crime and Englishness. |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Continuum Publishing Corporation |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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