par Bordwell, David (1947-2024)
Columbia University Press
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Disponible - 821(091) BOR
Niveau 3 - Langues et littératures
Perplexing plots : popular storytelling and the poetics of murder
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Bordwell, David (1947-2024)
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Résumé
The author begins by discussing the two main elements of the crime fiction genre, the puzzle and the transcendent detective (from Edgar Allan Poe and Arthur Conan Doyle to Agatha Christie, Dorothy Sayers, Ellery Queen, et al.), then scrutinizes the development of the psychological thriller, the hard-boiled detective (Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, Mickey Spillane), the police procedural (Ed McBain), the crime caper, and all of the other variations of a genre constantly reinventing itself. Like the great detectives he writes about, Bordwell shows off his encyclopedic knowledge and his dazzling analytic powers, laying out his case with an abundance of evidence—plot summaries, quotations, charts, and graphs. He pays particular attention to some of his favorites, e.g., John Dickson Carr, Erle Stanley Gardner, Rex Stout, Patricia Highsmith, and Donald Westlake, and filmmakers like Hitchcock and, especially, Tarantino.
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Date
- C 2023
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Langues
- Anglais
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Description matérielle
- 1 vol. (XIII-491 p.) : ill. ; 24 cm
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ISBN
- 978-0-231-20658-7 ;
- 978-0-231-20659-4
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Indice
- 821(091) Littérature américaine. Histoire
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Disponible - 821(091) BOR
Niveau 3 - Langues et littératures
