Detecting Canada : essays on Canadian crime fiction, television, and film / Jeannette Sloniowski and Marilyn Rose, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rose, Marilyn J., editor.

Sloniowski, Jeannette, 1946- editor.

Series:

Film + media studies

Film + media studies series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Detective and mystery stories, Canadian--History and criticism.

Detective and mystery stories, Canadian.

Crime on television--History and criticism.

Crime on television.

Crime on television / History and criticism.

Detective and mystery stories, Canadian / History and criticism.

Local Subjects:

Crime on television / History and criticism.

Detective and mystery stories, Canadian / History and criticism.

Genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.

Physical Description:

xxiv, 317 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Waterloo, Ontario, Canada : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, [2014]

Summary:

This book-length study of crime writing in Canada, Detecting Canada, 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 Wojeck, as well as the more recent series Da Vinci's Inquest, Da Vinci's City Hall, and Intelligence, and the controversial Durham County, a critically acclaimed but violent television series that ran successfully in both Canada and the United States. The essays in Detecting Canada 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.

Contents:

History and Theory

1 Coca-Colonials Write Back: Localizing the Global in Canadian Crime Fiction / Beryl hanger hanger, Beryl 3

2 Canadian Crime Writing in English / David Skene-Melvin Skene-Melvin, David 19

Essays on Fiction

3 Canadian Psycho: Genre, Nation, and Colonial Violence in Michael Slade's Gothic RCMP Procedural / Brian Johnson Johnson, Brian 55

4 Northern Procedures: Policing the Nation in Giles Blunts The Delicate Storm / Manina Jones Jones, Manina 83

5 Revisioning the Dick: Reading Thomas King's Thumps DreadfulWater Mysteries / Jennifer Andrews Andrews, Jennifer, Priscilla L. Walton Walton, Priscilla L. 101

6 Generic Play and Gender Trouble in Peter Robinson's In a Dry Season / Jeannette Sloniowski Sloniowski, Jeannette 123

7 A Colder Kind of Gender Politics: Intersections of Feminism and Detection in Gail Bowen's Joanne Kilbourn Series / Pamela Bedore Bedore, Pamela 151

8 Queer Eye for the Private Eye: Homonationalism and the Regulation of Queer Difference in Anthony Bidulka's Russell Quant Mystery Series / Péter Balogh Balogh, Péter 179

9 Under/Cover: Strategies of Detection and Evasion in Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace / Marilyn Rose Rose, Marilyn 205

Essays on Television

10 Televising Toronto in the 1960s: Wojeck and the Urban Crime Drama / Sarah A. Matheson Matheson, Sarah A. 229

11 North of Quality? "Quality" Television and the Suburban Crimeworld of Durham County / Lindsay Steenberg Steenberg, Lindsay, Yvonne Tasker Tasker, Yvonne 257

12 Mounties and Metaphysics in Canadian Film and Television / Patricia Gruben Gruben, Patricia 275.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Detectinng Canada.

ISBN:

9781554589265

1554589266

9781554589272

1554589274

9781554589289

1554589282

OCLC:

854936526