Detecting Canada

Essays on Canadian Crime Fiction, Television, and Film
Herausgeber: Sloniowski, Jeannette; Rose, Marilyn

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Produktbeschreibung

Essays on many of Canada's most popular crime writers, including Peter Robinson, Giles Blunt, Gail Bowen, Thomas King, Michael Slade, Margaret Atwood, and Anthony Bidulka. Television shows examined include Wojeck, Da Vinci's Inquest, Da Vinci's City Hall, Intelligence, and Durham County.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
• Seitenzahl: 290
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Februar 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 182mm x 172mm x 2mm
• Gewicht: 498g
• ISBN-13: 9781554589265
• ISBN-10: 1554589266
• Artikelnr.: 36956852

Autorenporträt

Jeannette Sloniowski is an associate professor in the Department of Communication, Popular Culture and Film at Brock University. She is a series editor for the TV Milestones series at Wayne State University Press, author of several journal articles and four edited books including Documenting the Documentary, Slippery Pastimes: Reading the Popular in Canadian Culture (WLU Press, 2002), and Candid Eyes. Marilyn Rose is a professor in the Department of English at Brock University. She specializes in modern and contemporary short fiction and poetry as well as detective fiction. She has published articles and book chapters in these areas and, with Jeannette Sloniowski, created and maintains CrimeFictionCanada, a scholarly database dedicated to the study of detective fiction in English around the world.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents for
Detecting Canada: Essays on Canadian Crime Fiction, Television, and Film,
edited by Jeannette Sloniowski and Marilyn Rose
Introduction Jeannette Sloniowski and Marilyn Rose
History and Theory
1. Coca-Colonialists Write Back: Localizing the Global in Canadian Crime
Fiction Beryl Langer
2. Canadian Crime Writing in English David Skene-Melvin
Essays on Fiction
3. Canadian Psycho: Genre, Nation, and Colonial Violence in Michael Slade's
Gothic RCMP Procedurals Brian Johnson
4. Northern Procedures: Policing the Nation in Giles Blunt's The Delicate
Storm Manina Jones
5. Revisioning the Dick: Reading Thomas King's Thumps DreadfulWater
Mysteries Jennifer Andrews and Priscilla L. Walton
6. Generic Play and Gender Trouble in Peter Robinson's In a Dry Season
Jeannette Sloniowski
7. A Colder Kind of Gender Politics: Intersections of Feminism and
Detection in Gail Bowen's Joanne Kilbourn Series Pamela Bedore
8. Queer Eye for the Private Eye: Homonationalism and the Regulation of
Queer Difference in Anthony Bidulka's Russell Quant Mystery Series Péter
Balogh
9. Under/Cover: Strategies of Detection and Evasion in Margaret Atwood's
Alias Grace Marilyn Rose
Essays on Television
10. Televising Toronto in the 1960s: Wojeck and the Urban Crime Genre
Sarah A. Matheson
11. North of Quality? "Quality" Television and the Suburban Crimeworld of
Durham County Lindsay Steenberg and Yvonne Tasker
12. Mounties and Metaphysics in Canadian Film and Television Patricia
Gruben
Contributors
Index