Popular fiction : technology, ideology, production, reading /
edited by Tony Bennett.
- London ; New York : Routledge, 1990.
- xix, 486 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
- Popular fictions series .
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.
0415025176 0415025184 (pbk.)
Culture in motion pictures. English fiction--History and criticism. Mass media. Motion pictures. Popular culture. Popular literature--History and criticism. Television broadcasting.