This critical study of American detective fiction examines the history and development of the detective genre through the lens of psychoanalysis. Applying the ideas of French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan, the author identifies and categorizes popular works according to the fictional protagonists hysteria, obsessive neurosis, perversion, or psychosis.
This critical study of American detective fiction examines the history and development of the detective genre through the lens of psychoanalysis. Appl...
The objective of this collection is to provide critical assessment of Marcia Muller's writing and to re-evaluate current critical views on women's detective fiction in general. The book draws on feminist, historicist, mythic, psychoanalytic and cultural approaches.
The objective of this collection is to provide critical assessment of Marcia Muller's writing and to re-evaluate current critical views on women's det...
Kidding Around: The Child in Film and Media is a collection of essays generated by a conference of the same title held at the University of the District of Columbia. The works gathered examine a variety of children's media, including texts produced for children (e.g., children's books, cartoons, animated films) as well as texts about children(e.g., feature-length films, literature, playground architecture, parenting guides). The primary goal of Kidding Around is to analyze and contextualize contested representations of childhood and children in various twentieth- and...
Kidding Around: The Child in Film and Media is a collection of essays generated by a conference of the same title held at the University of ...
