Description
Female Corpses in Crime Fiction, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2018
A Transatlantic Perspective
Crime Files Series
Language: EnglishKeywords
Necropornography; Hispanic crime fiction; Spanish American crime fiction; Anglophone crime fiction; Cadavers; Edgar Allan Poe; Mickey Spillane; Ed McBain; Neopoliciaco; Narco-novel; Paco Ignacio Taibo II; Andreu Martín; Lorenzo Silva; Roberto Bolaño; 2666; Dissection; Autopsy; Snuff video; Prime Suspect; CSI
Publication date: 01-2019
Support: Print on demand
Publication date: 10-2018
Support: Print on demand
Description
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Interrogates the prevalence of sexualised female cadavers in Hispanic and Anglophone crime fiction, television, and other mass media
Spans a 180-year corpus exemplifying various sub-genres of crime fiction, such as Edgar Allan Poe’s classical ratiocinative mode and Ed McBain’s police procedural
Examines in detail the artistic projection of a timely and highly pressing social concern