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1 online resource (200 pages). |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Continuum literary studies
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Continuum literary studies.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 174-188) and index. |
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. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Detective and mystery stories, English -- Television adaptations.
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Detective and mystery stories, English. |
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Television adaptations. |
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Detective and mystery stories, English.
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Detective and mystery television programs -- Great Britain -- History and criticism.
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Detective and mystery television programs. |
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Great Britain. |
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National characteristics, English -- History.
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National characteristics, English. |
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History. |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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Television adaptations.
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Other Form: |
Print version: McCaw, Neil, 1969- Adapting detective fiction. London ; New York : Continuum, ©2011 9781847063076 (OCoLC)646400364 |
ISBN |
9781441156624 (electronic book) |
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1441156623 (electronic book) |
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1282912615 |
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9781282912618 |
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9781847063076 (hardcover) |
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1847063071 (hardcover) |
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9781441186171 |
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1441186174 |
Standard No. |
9786612912610 |
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