| Adapting Detective Fiction: Crime, Englishness and the TV Detectives Contributor(s): McCaw, Neil (Author) |
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ISBN: 1847063071 ISBN-13: 9781847063076 Publisher: Continuum OUR PRICE: $198.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: January 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Mystery & Detective Fiction - Performing Arts | Television - History & Criticism - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
| Dewey: 791.456 |
| Series: Continuum Literary Studies |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.2" W x 9.2" (1.01 lbs) 208 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. 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. |