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1 online resource (200 pages) |
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Continuum literary studies |
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Continuum literary studies.
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| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 174-188) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Detective and mystery stories, English -- Television adaptations
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Detective and mystery television programs -- Great Britain -- History and criticism
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National characteristics, English -- History
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Television -- General.
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Detective and mystery stories, English
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Detective and mystery television programs
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National characteristics, English
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Great Britain
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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Television adaptations
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781441156624 |
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1441156623 |
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1282912615 |
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9781282912618 |
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9781441186171 |
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1441186174 |
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9786612912610 |
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6612912618 |
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