Reassessing Murder, She Wrote (eBook, ePUB)

The Afterlives of a Popular Culture Phenomenon
Redaktion: Burke, Eva; Schnabel, Jennifer

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book provides a critical overview of the cultural impact of the Murder, She Wrote TV series and it's paratextual elements including board and video games, podcasts, fan conventions, collectible figures, and ghostwritten novels.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. März 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040325940
• Artikelnr.: 73306951

Autorenporträt

Eva Burke completed her PhD, funded by the Irish Research Council, at the school of English at Trinity College Dublin under the supervision of Dr. Clare Clarke. Her research looks at domestic noir fiction, specifically the work of Gillian Flynn. Eva has published work in the Journal of International Women's Studies, Feminist Spaces and Trinity Postgraduate Review and the 2018 edited collection From the Domestic to the Dominant: The New Face of Crime Fiction, published by Palgrave Macmillan. She also co-edited a special 'domestic noir' issue of Clues: A Journal of Detection. Jennifer Schnabel is associate professor and English subject librarian at The Ohio State University. She contributes scholarly book reviews to Clues: A Journal of Detection and Crime Fiction Studies, and her own research explores women and crime fiction. She recently co-chaired the Mystery and Detective Fiction Area of the Popular Culture Association and is the Research Support Officer for the International Crime Fiction Association.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. Part I: J.B. Fletcher
Writing
and Genre 1. The Fairest of Them All: Jessica Fletcher's Reign of the Queen of Mystery in Murder
She Wrote
Jennifer Schnabel 2. Women Writing for Television's Woman Writer: The Fourteen Women Writers of Murder
She Wrote
Kristi Humphreys 3. Murder She Wrote: Bridging the Gap Between the Golden Age and Cosy Mysteries
Phyllis M. Betz Part II: Jessica Fletcher
Gender
and Detection 4. Misogyny She Wrote: How Murder
She Wrote Typifies the Backlash Against Feminism
Mary P. Freier 5. "This Woman Has a Brilliant Criminal Mind": Information Behavior of a Widow Woman from Maine
Michelle M. Kazmer 6. The Undercover Feminism of Jessica Fletcher in Murder
She Wrote
Sharon Dempsey Part III: Environments and Global Impact of Murder
She Wrote 7. "...Something sultry and seductive about this place": New Orleans in the Murder
She Wrote Imagination
Jill E. Anderson 8. "Norman Rockwell-land" or "Death Capital of Maine"? Race
Social Status
and Parochialism as Factors in the Perceived 'Coziness' of Crime in Reagan-Era Cabot Cove
Allysha Powanda Winburn
Mark J. Winburn
and Cate E. Bird 9. From Murder
She Wrote to La Signora in Giallo: Jessica Fletcher as a Pop Culture Icon in Italy
Lucia Casiraghi and Nicolò Salmaso 10. "Now
am I imagining things
or isn't that a little fairy person there in among the flowers?": Constructions of 'Ireland' in Murder
She Wrote
Eva Burke Part IV: Influences
Intertextuality
and Echoes 11. 'Agatha Christie's ghost may strike you dead!': Murder
She Wrote and an Agatha Christie Sense of Murder
Mark Aldridge 12. Death in Plastic: A Ludonarrative Analysis of Murder
She Wrote: The Game and Murder on Madison Avenue
Marco Arnaudo 13. Re-watching Murder
She Wrote: An Auto-Ethnographic Exploration of Queer Fandom and Race
Nina Trivedi