Adapting detective fiction crime, Englishness and the TV detectives
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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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; New York :
Continuum
2011.
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
Continuum literary studies. |
| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b35554502*spi |
| Sumario: | 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. |
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| Descripción Física: | 200 p. |
| Formato: | Forma de acceso: World Wide Web. |
| Bibliografía: | Incluye referencias bibliográficas (p. 174-188) e índice. |
| ISBN: | 9781441156624 9781282912618 9781441186171 |
