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 and media studies series.

Film and media studies series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Crime on television--History and criticism.

Crime on television.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxiv, 317 pages).

Distribution:

Beaconsfield, Quebec : Canadian Electronic Library, 2014.

Place of Publication:

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

Language Note:

English

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:

ntroduction / Jeanette Sloniowski and Marilyn Rose

HISTORY ANDTHEORY. 1. Coca-Colonialists Write Back: Localizing the Global in Canadian Crime Fiction / Beryl Langer

2. Canadian Criminous Writing in English / David Skene-Melvin

ESSAYS ON FICTION. 3. Canadian Psycho: Genre, Nation, and Colonial Violence in Michael Slade's Gothic RCMP Procedurals / Brian Johnson

4. Northern Procedures: Policing the Nation in Giles Blunt's "The Delicate Storm" / Manina Jones

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

6. Generic Play & Gender Trouble in Peter Robinson's "In a Dry Season" / Jeanette Sloniowski

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

8. Queer Eye for the Private Eye: Homonationalism & the Regulation of Queer Difference in Anthony Bidulka's Russell Quant Mystery Series / Peter Balogh

9. Under/Cover: Strategies of Detection & Evasion in Margaret Atwood's "Alias Grace" / Marilyn Rose

ESSAYS ON TELEVISION. 10. Televising Toronto in the 1960s: "Wojeck" and the Urban Crime Genre / Sara A. Matheson

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

12. Mounties and Metaphysics: The Detective in Canadian Film and Television / Patricia Gruben.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781554589272

1554589274

OCLC:

879870357