{"product_id":"detecting-canada-essays-on-canadian-crime-fiction-television-and-film-9781554589265","title":"Detecting Canada: Essays on Canadian Crime","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe first serious book-length study of crime writing in Canada, \u003ci\u003eDetecting Canada\u003c\/i\u003e contains thirteen 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. Genres examined range from the well-loved police procedural and the amateur sleuth to those less well known, such as anti-detection and contemporary noir novels. The book looks critically at the esteemed sixties' television show \u003ci\u003eWojeck\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as the more recent series \u003ci\u003eDa Vinci's Inquest\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDa Vinci's City Hall,\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eIntelligence\u003c\/i\u003e, and the controversial \u003ci\u003eDurham County\u003c\/i\u003e, a critically acclaimed but violent television series that ran successfully in both Canada and the United States.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe essays in \u003ci\u003eDetecting Canada\u003c\/i\u003e look at texts from a variety of perspectives, including postcolonial studies, gender and queer studies, feminist studies, Indigenous studies, and critical race and class studies. Crime fiction, enjoyed by so many around the world, speaks to all of us about justice, citizenship, and important social issues in an uncertain world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Writers of Canadian crime fiction have learned to gird our loins when we are asked a question that is as irritating as it is inevitable: When are you going to write a real novel? By offering not simply an overview of the history of crime fiction in Canada but thoughtful essays on the themes Canadian crime writers explore and on the roles played by landscape, gender, class, race, and community in our works, 'Detecting Canada' answers that question decisively. Canadian crime writers are writing real novels, and 'Detecting Canada' offers solid evidence to prove the point.\" -- Gail Bowen, author of 'The Gifted', the latest in the Joanne Kilbourn mystery series\u003cbr\u003e\"'Detecting Canada' is an indispensable landmark in the study of Canadian crime narratives. Its range is remarkable, with the essays covering not only the major practitioners of Canadian crime fiction but also television crime shows and films. This collection will remain a standard resource for many years to come.\" -- David Schmid, Department of English, University at Buffalo, author of 'Natural Born Celebrities: Serial Killers in American Culture'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eDetecting Canada: Essays on Canadian Crime Fiction, Television, and Film\u003c\/i\u003e, edited by Jeannette Sloniowski and Marilyn Rose\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntroduction  Jeannette Sloniowski and Marilyn Rose \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHistory and Theory\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1. Coca-Colonialists Write Back: Localizing the Global in Canadian Crime Fiction  Beryl Langer \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e2. Canadian Crime Writing in English  David Skene-Melvin \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEssays on Fiction\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e3. Canadian Psycho: Genre, Nation, and Colonial Violence in Michael Slade's Gothic RCMP Procedurals  Brian Johnson \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e4. Northern Procedures: Policing the Nation in Giles Blunt's \u003ci\u003eThe Delicate Storm\u003c\/i\u003e  Manina Jones \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e5. Revisioning the Dick: Reading Thomas King's Thumps DreadfulWater Mysteries  Jennifer Andrews and Priscilla L. Walton \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e6. Generic Play and Gender Trouble in Peter Robinson's \u003ci\u003eIn a Dry Season\u003c\/i\u003e  Jeannette Sloniowski \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e7. A Colder Kind of Gender Politics: Intersections of Feminism and Detection in Gail Bowen's Joanne Kilbourn Series  Pamela Bedore \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e8. Queer Eye for the Private Eye: Homonationalism and the Regulation of Queer Difference in Anthony Bidulka's Russell Quant Mystery Series  Péter Balogh \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e9. Under\/Cover: Strategies of Detection and Evasion in Margaret Atwood's \u003ci\u003eAlias Grace\u003c\/i\u003e  Marilyn Rose \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEssays on Television\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e10. Televising Toronto in the 1960s: \u003ci\u003eWojeck\u003c\/i\u003e and the Urban Crime Genre  Sarah A. Matheson \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e11. North of Quality? \"\"Quality\"\" Television and the Suburban Crimeworld of \u003ci\u003eDurham County\u003c\/i\u003e  Lindsay Steenberg and Yvonne Tasker \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e12. Mounties and Metaphysics in Canadian Film and Television  Patricia Gruben \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eContributors\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIndex\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Wilfrid Laurier University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51359603720535,"sku":"9781554589265","price":32.36,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781554589265.jpg?v=1754125146","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/detecting-canada-essays-on-canadian-crime-fiction-television-and-film-9781554589265","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}