{"product_id":"criminal-proceedings-9780745310169","title":"Criminal Proceedings","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA fascinating look at the contemporary American crime novel in all its variety and complexity\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A wonderfully perverse book' -- Times Higher Education Supplement\u003cbr\u003e'The collection assembles a wide variety of both types of lawman and law-woman, including racist, misogynistic cops, Navajo police (one with traditional religious interests), feminists PIs, and Western detectives – along with assorted lawyers and FBI agents... What does unite the contributors, apart from their ability to write accessible yet sophisticated prose, is their professionalism' -- Ralph Willett, Borderlines: Studies in American Culture\u003cbr\u003e'This welcome collection of essays will be of use to almost anyone interested in the field and its contemporary state' -- Jopi Nyman, European Association for American Studies\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. Introduction: From Private Eye to Police Procedural – The Logic of Contemporary Crime Fiction by Peter Messent\u003cbr\u003e  2. Criminal Suits: Style and Surveillance, Strategy and Tactics in Elmore Leonard by Barry Taylor\u003cbr\u003e  3. Black Noir: Race and Urban Space in Walter Mosley's Detective Fiction by Liam Kennedy\u003cbr\u003e  4. V. I. Warshawski, Kinsey Millhone and Kay Scarpetta: The Creation of a Feminist Detective Hero by Sabine Vanacker\u003cbr\u003e  5. The Lesbian Thriller: Transgressive Investigations by Paulina Palmer\u003cbr\u003e  6. Policing the Margins: Barbara Wilson's Gaudi Afternoon and Troubles in Transylvania by Christopher Gair\u003cbr\u003e  7. Reading the Signs: Detection and Anthropology in the Work of Tony Hillerman by David Murray\u003cbr\u003e  8. The Last Good Place; James Crumley, the West and the Detective Novel by John Harvey\u003cbr\u003e  9. James Ellroy, Los Angeles and the Spectacular Crisis of Masculinity by Josh Cohen\u003cbr\u003e  10. Law Crimes: The Legal Fictions of John Grisham and Scott Turow by Nick Heffernan\u003cbr\u003e  11. Watching the Detectives: Body Images, Sexual Politics and Ideology in Contemporary Crime Film by Brian Jarvis\u003cbr\u003e  Selected \u003cbr\u003e  Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e  Notes on Contributors\u003cbr\u003e  Index","brand":"Pluto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49404280439127,"sku":"9780745310169","price":26.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/criminal-proceedings-9780745310169","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}