Drawing on a range of disciplinary tools and critical analyses, this unique collection explores interdisciplinary connections between academic and professional crime writing, historical studies of crime and 'true crime', and screen portrayals of crime and criminals from the 1850s to the present day.The essays are based on murder and exploitation, outlaws, gunfighters, private eyes, bounty hunters, serial killers, gangsters, and the police procedural, andexplore representations of race, gender, sexuality and memory.International in its coverage, thebook includes analysesof well-known writers such asMaj Sjowall, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, James Ellroy and Elizabeth Ruth.
- ISBN10 1137016760
- ISBN13 9781137016768
- Publish Date 1 July 2012 (first published 1 January 2012)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Palgrave Macmillan
- Format eBook
- Pages 192
- Language English