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  • Mediterranean Crime Fiction

    Transcultural Narratives in and around the ‘Great Sea'

    de Barbara Pezzotti ...
    Contributing to the growing debate around the definition of Mediterranean noir, Barbara Pezzotti's groundbreaking study is the first in English to propose a rigorous classification of Mediterranean crime fiction. Intersecting crime fiction studies and Mediterranean studies, this interdisciplinary book provides a coherent and stringent definition in which the Mediterranean setting is not in the ... Leer más

    $95.99 USD

  • Politics and Society in Italian Crime Fiction

    An Historical Overview

    de Barbara Pezzotti ...
    This book comprehensively covers the history of Italian crime fiction from its origins to the present. Using the concept of "moral rebellion," the author examines the ways in which Italian crime fiction has articulated the country's social and political changes. The book concentrates on such writers as Augusto de Angelis (1888-1944), Giorgio Scerbanenco (1911-1969), Leonardo Sciascia (1921-1989), ... Leer más

    $24.99 USD

  • Investigating Italy's Past through Historical Crime Fiction, Films, and TV Series

    Murder in the Age of Chaos

    de Barbara Pezzotti ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book is the first monograph in English that comprehensively examines the ways in which Italian historical crime novels, TV series, and films have become a means to intervene in the social and political changes of the country. This study explores the ways in which fictional representations of the past mirror contemporaneous anxieties within Italian society in the work of writers such as ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • The Foreign in International Crime Fiction

    Transcultural Representations

    Edición de Professor Jean Anderson, Dr Carolina Miranda, Dr Barbara Pezzotti ...
    'The foreigner' is a familiar character in popular crime fiction, from the foreign detective whose outsider status provides a unique perspective on a familiar or exotic location to the xenophobic portrayal of the criminal 'other'. Exploring popular crime fiction from across the world, The Foreign in International Crime Fiction examines these popular works as 'transcultural contact zones' in which ... Leer más

    $42.99 USD

  • Serial Crime Fiction

    Dying for More

    Edición de Carolina Miranda, Jean Anderson, Barbara Pezzotti ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Serial Crime Fiction is the first book to focus explicitly on the complexities of crime fiction seriality. Covering definitions and development of the serial form, implications of the setting, and marketing of the series, it studies authors such as Doyle, Sayers, Paretsky, Ellroy, Marklund, Camilleri, Borges, across print, film and television. ... Leer más

    $49.99 USD

  • Blood on the Table

    Essays on Food in International Crime Fiction

    Edición de Carolina Miranda, Barbara Pezzotti, Jean Anderson ...
    Written from a multicultural and interdisciplinary perspective, this collection of new essays explores the semiotics of food in the 20th- and 21st-century crime fiction of authors such as Anthony Bourdain, Arthur Upfield, Sara Paretsky, Andrea Camilleri, Fred Vargas, Ruth Rendell, Stieg Larsson, Leonardo Padura, Georges Simenon, Paco Ignacio Taibo II, and Donna Leon. The collection covers a range ... Leer más

    $29.99 USD

  • The Importance of Place in Contemporary Italian Crime Fiction

    A Bloody Journey

    de Barbara Pezzotti ...
    Series series
    By taking as its point of departure the privileged relationship between the crime novel and its setting, this book is the most wide-ranging examination of the way in which Italian detective fiction in the last twenty years has become a means to articulate the changes in the social landscape of the country. Nowadays there is a general acknowledgment of the importance of place in Italian crime ... Leer más

    $49.99 USD

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    New Directions in Authorial Film Practices in France, Italy and Spain Since the 1980s

    de Rosanna Maule ...
    Beyond Auteurism is a comprehensive study of nine film authors from France, Italy and Spain who since the 1980s have blurred the boundaries between art-house and mainstream, and national and transnational film production. Maule examines how the individuals have maintained a dialectical relationship with the authorial tradition of the national cinema to which each belongs. In considering this ... Leer más

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  • Documenting Cityscapes

    Urban Change in Contemporary Non-Fiction Film

    de Iván Villarmea Álvarez ...
    Series series Nonfictions
    While film studies has traditionally treated the presence of the city in film as an urban text operating inside of a cinematic one, this approach has recently evolved into the study of cinema as a technology of place. From this perspective, Documenting Cityscapes explores the way the city has been depicted by nonfiction filmmakers since the late 1970s, paying particular attention to three ... Leer más

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  • Memory, Mobility, and Material Culture

    Edición de Chiara Giuliani, Kate Hodgson ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Cultural History
    With a focus on the object and where it is situated, in time (memory) and space (mobility), Memory, Mobility, and Material Culture embodies a multidisciplinary and cross-disciplinary approach.The chapters track the movement of the objects and their owner(s), within and between continents, countries, cities, and families. Objects have always been considered with an eye to their worth – economic, ... Leer más

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  • Motion Pictures

    Travel Ideals in Film

    Edición de Gemma Blackwood, Andrew McGregor ...
    Series Libro 8 - Film Cultures
    This volume examines representations and explorations of travel ideals in contemporary international cinema. It assembles work from a diverse range of academic fields including anthropology, sociology, ethnography, cinema, culture, tourism, communication and language studies, with contributions from international experts such as Mary Louise Pratt of New York University, whose work on ‘contact ... Leer más

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  • Cultural Hybridity

    de Peter Burke ...
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