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Popular fiction : technology, ideology, production, reading / edited by Tony Bennett.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextSeries: Popular fictions seriesPublication details: London ; New York : Routledge, 1990.Description: xix, 486 p. : ill. ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 0415025176
  • 0415025184 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 302.2/34 19
Contents:
CONTENTS: Series editor's preface -- Preface -- Acknowledgement -- Popular fictions and cultural technologies -- Introduction -- The technology and the society -- On screen, in frame: film and ideology -- Broadcast TV as cultural form -- 'While Millicent bucked and writhed...' -- Fictioning the nation -- Introduction --Apprehensions of time -- The language of detection -- Scotland and Cinema: the inquiry of the fathers -- Representing the nation -- Pleasure, gender, sexuality: feminist reappraisals -- Introduction -- Afterthoughts on 'visual pleasure and narrative cinema' -- Women in film noir -- Sexual disguise and cinema -- The search for tomorrow in today's soap operas -- Knowledge, power, ideology: detective fiction -- Introduction -- From the flaneur to the detective: interpreting the city of poe -- Clues -- Morelli, Freud and Sherlock Holmes: clues and scientific method -- Deconstructing the text: Sherlock Holmes -- Production -- Introduction -- Send-up: authorship and organization -- The making of (the) MTM (show) -- Made in Ealing -- Out of what past? Notes on the B film noir -- Reading -- Introduction -- The operational aesthetic -- Peter Pan and the commercialization of the child -- Figures of bond -- Television and gender -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: This book should be of interest to students and lecturers of cultural studies and literary studies.
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Includes index.

Bibliography: p. [461]-474.

CONTENTS: Series editor's preface -- Preface -- Acknowledgement -- Popular fictions and cultural technologies -- Introduction -- The technology and the society -- On screen, in frame: film and ideology -- Broadcast TV as cultural form -- 'While Millicent bucked and writhed...' -- Fictioning the nation -- Introduction --Apprehensions of time -- The language of detection -- Scotland and Cinema: the inquiry of the fathers -- Representing the nation -- Pleasure, gender, sexuality: feminist reappraisals -- Introduction -- Afterthoughts on 'visual pleasure and narrative cinema' -- Women in film noir -- Sexual disguise and cinema -- The search for tomorrow in today's soap operas -- Knowledge, power, ideology: detective fiction -- Introduction -- From the flaneur to the detective: interpreting the city of poe -- Clues -- Morelli, Freud and Sherlock Holmes: clues and scientific method -- Deconstructing the text: Sherlock Holmes -- Production -- Introduction -- Send-up: authorship and organization -- The making of (the) MTM (show) -- Made in Ealing -- Out of what past? Notes on the B film noir -- Reading -- Introduction -- The operational aesthetic -- Peter Pan and the commercialization of the child -- Figures of bond -- Television and gender -- Bibliography -- Index.

This book should be of interest to students and lecturers of cultural studies and literary studies.

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